Josie Ford
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com
Funny feeling
Scientific papers don’t usually hit their readers in the feels. It’s hard to become emotionally entangled with transcriptional regulators or muon neutrinos. But this week, Feedback was sent a study that made us feel positively queasy.
Assistant news editor Alexandra Thompson had spotted a paper by social psychologist Paul Silvia at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his colleagues. It’s called: “Who laughs at their own jokes? Metacognitive judgments of self-rated funniness in creative humor production tasks”.
