Incongruity Generates a Desire To Comprehend

Professor Jim Davies’ fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe,reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to superstition.

Incongruity often generates a desire to comprehend

In spite of what you might think of your fellow human beings on a day-to-day basis, we are the most intelligent and intellectually curiou...