Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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What Makes a Dad Joke Funny? Science Weighs In

October 14, 2026

I'm known in my family for bad dad jokes. I text them to relatives and get the eye-roll emoji back. So when two psychologists published a paper this year on what makes a dad joke funny, I had to look. Paul Silvia and Meriel Burnett scraped more than 32,000 jokes from Reddit's r/dadjokes, coded every one for length, concreteness, and 156 topics (dads, chickens, pirates, Halloween), and tried to predict which ones got upvotes. That worked badly, and the reason why is a lesson in measurement. So...

One Simple Habit for a Happier Marriage? Not So Fast

October 07, 2026

A new study of about 1,700 married couples found that partners who exercise together, usually by walking, tend to have stronger marriages, and the headlines quickly turned that into "one simple habit for a happier relationship." In this short episode I use that study to walk through one of the most useful ideas in all of psychology: correlation is not causation. The same finding fits three very different stories (walking improves the marriage, a good marriage is what gets couples out walking ...

I'm Not the Person I Used to Be (and Why Your Brain Wants You to Believe That)

October 01, 2026

Why do your good deeds feel like "still me" while your bad ones feel like "a different person back then"? Research from Felipe De Brigard's lab at Duke University, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and in Memory and Cognition, shows that people judge their own past lies and hurtful acts more harshly the further back they happened, and that remembering a wrong act makes you feel like you have changed, while remembering a right act makes you feel like the same person ...

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