... researchers then determined tests, which would quantify the participants" ability to emotionally respond to a stimulus. The first test evaluated humorous verbal statements intending to evoke laughter from the reader. The second test involved jokes and punch lines and the participant's ability to match the joke to the appropriate punch line. Along with the joke's appropriate conclusion, there were three other choices that the tested could choose from including rational completions of ... the statement, illogical conclusions, and conclusions that made no sense in conjunction with the orig...

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