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Not all humor is made equal. Nor does it have the same effect on your mental and emotional health.
According to recent research, there are eight comic styles (namely fun, humor, nonsense, wit, irony, satire, sarcasm, and cynicism) which can be subdivided into lighter or darker styles.
They differ in terms of their intention and goal, object, attitude toward the agent, behavior toward other people, ideal audience, method, and linguistic peculiarities.
The four lighter comic styles, which are more benign and benevolent, include:
- Fun, which aims to spread good mood and companionship
- Humor, which aims to create sympathy and discover discrepancies in everyday situations
- Nonsense, which experiments with ridiculousness, contradictions, and absurdities
- Wit, which creates clever connections between ideas and thoughts
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Meanwhile, the four darker comic styles, mostly based on mockery and ridicule, include:
- Irony, which contrasts expectations and reality, with a focus on stating things in opposition to their meaning
- Satire, which criticizes wrongdoings, shortcomings, misconduct,e tc., for the sake of correcting others and improving the world
- Sarcasm, which criticizes and ridicules people, institutions, or topics
- Cynicism, which ridicules common values, weaknesses, and moral concepts
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Benign humor tends to play a protective role when it comes to depression, anxiety, and stress. In other words, if you embrace this lighter comic style, you are, essentially, shielding yourself and others from these three negative things.
Meanwhile, research has shown that irony actually increases anxiety and stress.
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If you’re a fan of wit, the good news is that it protects you from anxiety. However, at the same time, it doesn’t protect you from depression or stress.
In the meantime, using sarcasm can actually lead to worsening depression.
So, in a nutshell, if you want to improve your and others’ mental and emotional well-being, it’s best that you embrace the lighter—rather than the darker—comic styles. In short, as fun as irony and sarcasm can be from time to time, they lead to more emotional distress.
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Broadly speaking, humor as a whole is a fantastic coping mechanism because it can reduce the negative effects of the stress you experience. That’s on top of the fact that laughter can help you connect with other people, can boost your immune system, and gives your body a mild workout.
That being said, you have to remember that some types of humor can do more harm than good in the wrong circumstances. You do not have to brutally put someone down just to make yourself feel better. Rather, you can create win-win situations with your comedy. And a lot depends on your audience and the type of humor it prefers.
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