{"id":1324,"date":"2018-10-09T23:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2018-10-09T23:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:05:59","slug":"humor-and-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/10\/09\/humor-and-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor and Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<em> Pacific Standard<\/em> has an interesting article about <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/saving-critical-thinking-one-joke-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the use of humor to increase critical thinking<\/a>. The article notes, however, &#8220;while funny things can be reassuring and uplifting, making us feel better, humor isn&#8217;t automatically guaranteed to change a viewer&#8217;s mind. In fact, humor can do the opposite, reinforcing what we already think.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Standard has an interesting article about the use of humor to increase critical thinking. The article notes, however, &#8220;while funny things can be reassuring and uplifting, making us feel better, humor isn&#8217;t automatically guaranteed to change a viewer&#8217;s mind. In fact, humor can do the opposite, reinforcing what we already think.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2051],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}