Dark humour could be a sign of superior intelligence
Scientists have linked higher intelligence to an appreciation of dark humour, based on a small study that investigated the complex information-processing that’s involved in interpreting a sick joke.
But a higher IQ isn’t the only thing that’ll have you winning popularity contests in your local Louie Appreciation Society - the study also found that those who were most in tune with dark humour had the lowest scores for aggression and bad mood.
"These findings support the notion that humour processing depends on cognitive as well as emotional aspects, and suggest that this also accounts for black humour processing, which seems to be a complex information-processing task," the team from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria concludes.
The researchers recruit 156 male and female volunteers with an average age of 33, and asked them to rate their comprehension and enjoyment of 12 dark humour cartoons taken from The Black Book by German cartoonist Uli Stein.
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