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Is the cartoon funny?
What makes a cartoon funny?
The subjects were asked to state whether they found the cartoon funny.
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A launch title for the console, Ubisoft Montpellier's horror is as far away from the stress-free cartoon funnies of your average Mario game as the Wii U gets.
When people in scanners found certain cartoons funny, Weems explains, various parts of their brains increased in activation, and those parts are associated with the "dopamine reward circuit".
Second, Americans can't find these cartoons funny because the cartoons always have to be explained to us.
Another factor that makes the alteration of our caption-contest cartoons funnier than the usual anti-humor is that things are always funnier if they are at someone else's expense.
For four decades scientists have conducted variations on this experiment, showing if people are forced to smile they find cartoons funnier.
Who decides whether a cartoon is funny?
(5) It is still, however, a cartoon about funny aliens invading Earth.
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