Not All Claps and Cheers

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4.6   Just kidding

When workplace humor is toxic

Linda Weiser Friedman and Hershey H. Friedman

Introduction

Over the past several decades, humor has evolved into nothing less than a platform for human communication. Wit is the hallmark of intelligent beings. While humor has been part of the essence of being human since ancient times (Friedman & Friedman 2014), the infiltration of modern computer technology into all human endeavors has brought with it a sort of playfulness (Friedman & Friedman 2003), including the proliferation of irony on the Internet, and even the (non-ironic) reference to ours as the post-ironic age.

Humor has been shown to be useful and effective in many different areas of human endeavor, including medicine, counseling, ...