Black humor is a sign of a person's high level of intelligence

If you like black humor, then, most likely, you are a person with a high level of intelligence. At least so believe the specialists of the Vienna Medical University, who in their recent study established a direct link between the response of the experimental to the black humor and the level of their intelligence. The results of an unusual experiment were published in the journal Cognitive Processing , where anyone can become acquainted with them now.

First, let's define: what is this "black humor" in general? Historically, this form of humor is inseparable from cynicism, due to which the comic nature of jokes is most often achieved by ridicule over death, violence and other gloomy topics. The very term of French origin, in his native country, this humor is called only "humor noir". The first "black jokes" were recorded as early as the 19th century, but such humor was widespread only in the middle of the 20th century.

156 adult men and women took part in the research. The average age of the subjects was 33 years, while the level of education in all subjects was different. Scientists offered to assess the people of 12 comics for the authorship of the German artist Uli Stein, dedicated to death, illness, mutilation and other, characteristic of black humor topics. Each subject had to evaluate the joke, tell the researchers how difficult it was for him to understand her, to measure the level of her vulgarity, and so on.

The results of the study revealed a very interesting trend. It turned out that lovers of black humor are intelligent, less aggressive and more emotionally stable than those people who do not understand and appreciate black humor. Researchers argue that any humor is a two-step process of solving a problem, directly related to the level of human intelligence, as well as dependent on some cognitive and emotional aspects. Those subjects, who did not like jokes, demonstrated a lower level of intelligence and increased aggressiveness. Scientists believe that aggressiveness and bad mood lead to a reduction in the amount of pleasure obtained from gloomy jokes.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/research-development/chyornyj-yumor-priznak-nalichiya-u-cheloveka-vysokogo-urovnya-intellekta.html.