Humour.

Is such an elemental aspect of what it is to be human - and yet researchers are still making new discoveries about what makes a line funny (or flop), how humour affects us, and what a person's comic style can reveal about them. The team behind this study developed their 20-item parent-report humour survey to help plug a gap in research: a lack of knowledge about how humour typically develops in children. Find our Research Digest at www.bps.org.uk/research-digest Editor: Dr Matthew Warren Writers: Emily Reynolds, and Emma Young Reports, links and more on the website Whatever your taste in humour, we all love people - and jokes - that make us laugh. [Extracted from the article]