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there must be plenty of healthy people on this forum
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Research from three business experts says that sarcasm can help develop a sense of abstraction, which leads to greater creativity – not only in the people who practice it, but the people who hear it, the Harvard Gazette reports.
It’s about the brain power required to “overcome the contradiction (i.e., psychological distance) between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcastic expressions. This is a process that activates and is facilitated by abstraction, which in turn promotes creative thinking,” one of the study’s authors, Francesca Gino, of the Harvard Business School, tells the Gazette. Study: Sarcasm is good for the minds of those who use it, hear it - WTOP
A lot of the posts have also been ironic (saying the opposite of what you actually mean), with sarcasm thrown in for the bite (ouch) that it provides.
Actually that are far more post where comments mean the exact opposite of what the writer intended. As I ironist (a practitioner of irony and sarcasm) I take particular delight in those inarticulations.
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