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The Secret to a Good Joke Is Silence

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files by Michael Britt

Aug 13, 202616:15Education

This episode looks at why comic timing works, using a 2026 study from Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, and colleagues at Peking University, presented at the Cognitive Science Society. The researchers analyzed 828 professional sta...

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The Secret to a Good Joke Is Silence is an episode from Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files by Michael Britt. This episode looks at why comic timing works, using a 2026 study from Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, and colleagues at Peking Un...

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Published Aug 13, 2026, 16:15 long, audio available.

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