Sarcasm Fluent

It has taken more than 20 years, but there is finally scientific justification for this column/blog/whatever you want to call it. Of course, regular readers of Notes from the Field cherish it for its insightful analysis, considered reasoning, and we

candan, Canada (prHWY.com) July 10, 2012 - It has taken more than 20 years, but there is finally scientific justification for this column/blog/whatever you want to call it. Of course, regular readers of Notes from the Field cherish it for its insightful analysis, considered reasoning, and well-tempered opinions on all things tech. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children understand and use sarcasm by the time they get to kindergarten. An inability to understand sarcasm may be an early warning sign of brain disease. Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do. Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm. That extra work may make our brains sharper,
according to another study. College students in Israel listened to complaints to a cell phone company's customer service line. The students were better able to solve problems creatively when the complaints were sarcastic as opposed to just plain angry. Sarcasm "appears to stimulate complex thinking and to attenuate the otherwise negative effects of anger," mong strangers, sarcasm use soars if the conversation is via an anonymous computer chat room as opposed to face to face, according to a study by Jeffrey Hancock, a communications professor at Cornell University. This may be because it's safer to risk some biting humor with someone you're never going to meet. He also noted that conversations typed on a computer take more time than a face to face discussion. People may use that extra time to construct more complicated ironic statements. There are a lot of things that can cause our sarcasm
detectors to break down, scientists are finding. Conditions including autism, closed head injuries, brain lesions and schizophrenia can interfere with the ability to perceive sarcasm.

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