Kong: Humor has a lot of relational benefits. People bond easily when they laugh together, and it builds trust. Research shows it boosts creativity, helps people think more divergently and strengthens ...

One is an engineer-turned-comedian; the other, a communication professor at Texas A&M University. As founders of the consulting firm Humor That Works, brothers Dave and Andrew Tarvin teach people how ...

Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at work is a gamble, and the costs of a flop are often greater than the rewards ...

Laughter is often described as the shortest distance between two people. But what happens when that distance is widened by power? As a business psychologist and host of a podcast on humorology, I’ve ...

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Ellie Victor, Cofounder and CEO of ZOOM Marketing, one of Silicon Valley's premier positioning agencies with hundreds of successful clients. The other day, I caught up with a client we hadn’t worked ...