![]() Those who least enjoyed the cartoons were not necessarily the least intelligent, but those who were most aggressive. "a kind of humour that treats sinister subjects like death, disease, deformity, handicap or warfare with bitter amusement and presents such tragic, distressing or morbid topics in humorous terms." ![]() One of the authors defines 'black humour' as: They then participated in a series of tests of verbal and non-verbal intelligence, mood disturbance and aggressiveness and the results showed those with high comprehension and intelligence were the ones who most enjoyed the black humour in the cartoons. The study asked participants to rate how funny they found a series of cartoons printed in The Black Book by German humourist Uli Stein (like the one above)! ![]()
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