{"id":10508,"date":"2014-02-07T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10508"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:34:52","slug":"too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020714_1234_TooSoon1.jpg\" width=\"577\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not sure if an appropriate amount of time has passed before it&#8217;s safe to make jokes about a traumatic event? Science has your back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jokes about a traumatic event before it takes place (such as an upcoming hurricane) are generally well received.<\/li>\n<li>The perceived humour of post-tragedy jokes falls up to about fifteen days after the tragedy.<\/li>\n<li>After that jokes about the event seem funnier. They seem funniest 36 days after the event.<\/li>\n<li>The perceived humour of jokes falls after that \u2013 but mostly because the memory of the event fades with time and so it&#8217;s harder to relate to jokes about it.<\/li>\n<li>It also depends on the quality of the joke. Two weeks after 9\/11 The Onion released an issue with jokes about the event that was well received due to the quality of the writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See graphs that show when you can make that joke you were holding onto and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116425\/science-humor-when-does-it-become-ok-joke-about-tragedy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116425\/science-humor-when-does-it-become-ok-joke-about-tragedy\">New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/02\/assorted-links-1049.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if an appropriate amount of time has passed before it&#8217;s safe to make jokes about a traumatic event? Science has your back: Jokes about a traumatic event before it takes place (such as an upcoming hurricane) are generally well received. The perceived humour of post-tragedy jokes falls up to about fifteen days after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020714_1234_TooSoon1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}