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4 Styles Of Humour — Is Yours Beneficial or Maladaptive?

The psychology behind your sense of humour.

Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash

I planned on having an entirely different story published today for this sixth story in my story-a-day challenge; however, it’s an hour and a half till midnight, and I can’t see it happening. So, here’s some interesting information I found while researching tomorrow’s story.

“Cognitive distortions were associated with reduced use of adaptive Affiliative and Self-Enhancing humour styles and increased use of maladaptive Aggressive and Self-Defeating humour” — Katerina Rnic.

Studies show that certain styles of humour can suggest our risk of depression through cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are negative thought patterns that often lead to depression and dysphoria (the opposite of euphoria).

Cognitive distortions include mindreading or assuming people think negatively about them, catastrophizing, emotional reasoning or basing thoughts on emotions rather than fact, mentally filtering negative information, and much more.