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Researchers at Harvard and Columbia concluded that Sarcasm promotes Creative Thinking because both the expressers and recipients of sarcasm need to overcome the contradiction between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcastic expressions.

Uncategorized / Adam Galinsky, African Americans, Barack Obama, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, The Onion, Vikram Pandit / / By

Go ahead, be sarcastic

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Go ahead, be sarcastic

“Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.” That was how The Onion famously announced Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008.

Rather than a feel-good story trumpeting the historic occasion, the satirical publication sarcastically detailed the economic and political mess Obama would inherit (and be expected to mop up) from his first day in office. It was an unexpected and cheeky inversion of the day’s events played for laughs, that also highlighted the sobering reality the nation still faced even after the momentary celebration was over. Implicit, too, was the worry that the ascendancy of an African-American man to a previously unattainable position of global power might turn out to be … Continue Reading

Source: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/07/go-ahead-be-sarcastic/

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