Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media This book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of large corpus of mediated interactions, from cringe humor on screen to online cringe humor.

🔉 Coming out soon(ish):
Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media: Pragmatic Perspectives, coedited by @ccschn.bsky.social, Lynn Blin and I.
Can't wait!

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

In 2023, I wrote about the psychology of dad jokes for
@psychmag.bsky.social (and made it onto the cover of the magazine!) Two years on, they’ve asked me to reflect back. I write about the experience of having my piece go semi-viral and my favourite relevant research that has come out since 👇

OSF

🎆New paper out! 🎆
Me & @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social revisit the law of abbreviation, a nearly universal correlation between word frequency and brevity.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Feeling lucky and grateful for me and my students to have welcomed researchers whose work on fiction I deeply admire and find so inspiring (@marchye.bsky.social, @mathiasclasen, @maryannefisher). Thanks to them and to my students for an incredibly insightful semester!