As described in the cover story “The Nutty Professor,” Boulder professor Peter McGraw, with the help of his Humor Research Lab (HuRL), has come up with a universal theory of comedy they call the ...

How humor works is a serious study for CU Boulder's Peter McGraw. As director of the Humor Research Lab, McGraw is exploring what makes a good joke, and what falls flat. His team have developed a ...

Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being geeky and humorless. In fact, the opposite is true. Scientists (particularly grad students) are absolutely hysterical, and always looking for an ...

This post was co-authored by Erika Pages, a fifth-year Ph.D. graduate student in social psychology at Arizona State University working in Michelle Shiota's Social Psychology Lab. Humor is a powerful ...