...the first proponent of a superiority theory, defined laughter as " a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (McGhee, 1979, p. 5). Anthropologie studies point to the inherently aggressive nature of laughter (Lorenz,...

...laughter in funny experience to be the "sudden glory arising from [the] conception of some cmincncy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others or with our own formerly."1 A stranger slips on a banana peel and suffers an undignified pratfall. We observers experience...

...hostile aggression generated by a sense of superiority. Recall Hobbes' definition of humor involving "sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of...ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others." Ethnic humor allows us to take comfort in the way we can "deflate" the status of others, and achieve,...

...had long ago defined the "passion of laughter" as "nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Nineteenth-century students of humor made this definition their own and offered imaginative variations...

...Hobbes defined laughter as "nothing but the sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminence in ourselves; by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."15 Capp's theory is based on this dictum. And like Hobbes, Capp has a human psychology. He...

...ridiculous or, as Hobbes put it in his classic statement, humor involves a "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves; by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (Piddington 1963, 160). Probably the most widely held theory of humor involves the notion of incongruity,...

...books on humor. Hobbes writes that humor arises from a "sudden glory arising from a sudden comparison of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (quoted in Arthur Koestler, Insight and Outlook, MacMillan, 1949, 56). In chapter 6, part 1 of Leviathan,...

...Press, 1950), 30. 8 In Human Nature, Hobbes speaks of laughter as the "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." (The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Sir William Molesworth [London: John Bonn, 1839] repr. 1962),...

...nicht - oder nicht mehr - im Zustand der „infirmity" befindet: „a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."48 Lachen entsteht aus dem Vergleich eines unbelasteten, überle46 Jean Paul (Anm. 14), I....

...laughter to social rivalry. The passion of laughter, he sensed, was nothing more than the proclaiming of "some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others" or with our own one-time lowly position.1 In the Hobbesian jungle of our contemporary world, ethnic humor's primary...