For the many Ladies whose profile includes "someone to make me laugh", be careful what you wish for or where you place emphasis:


"LONDON (Reuters) - Having an unusual personality structure could be the secret to making other people laugh, scientists said on Thursday after research showed that comedians have high levels of psychotic personality traits.

"In a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers analyzed comedians from Australia, Britain and the United States and found they scored significantly higher on four types of psychotic characteristics compared to a control group of people who had non-creative jobs.

"The traits included a tendency towards impulsive or anti-social behavior, and a tendency to avoid intimacy.

"'The creative elements needed to produce humor are strikingly similar to those characterizing the cognitive style of people with psychosis - both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,; said Gordon Claridge of the University of Oxford's department of experimental psychology, who led the study."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/comedians-psychotic-personality-traits-study-finds-001158247--finance.html

Psychotics need laughter too :-)

Psychotics I can handle. It's the "normals" who scare me.

Geez. Does this means I shouldn't try to be a comedian? I'm already crazy. I might as well get paid to be crazy. hahaha

What's wrong with psychotics?

Less than 10% of homicides are due to psychotic episodes, the only difference is that psychotics tend to do things big...Therefore we hear more about it, and come up with these misconceived notions that everyone that suffers from some sort of psychotic illness should be pushed to the side.

Hell, some absolutely brilliant people were bats* crazy.

Same here.

Most brilliant people are bat chit crazy, their brains work differently than everyone else's.

that explains why i've been told so many times that i am a turkey
greetings to Ms x

If you gotta quote a scientific study on the effect of laughter towards a relationship....You may as well be explaining Klingon to a dog.....

Sure,you may mean it....But it is doomed to fail.

Laughter is easy and natural....You got it or you don't....explaining how people should think you are witty is three steps backwards....

Elvis never called himself the king....everyone else did.

Be careful ? Why are you hating on people who can make another laugh? Laughter feels good. Seems to me you're jealous that others can make panties drop with their wit. Oh I'm also guessing that study didn't show how a lot of comedians also come from really harsh lives and they were able to overcome past hardships through that outside the box thinking and laughter. Like seriously why you gotta hate & c o c k block on another man's modus operandi?

"Omg be careful he can make you laugh and may actually make you happy"

Cause he is a douche.....next question.

Thank you Krupa.
Next question...How have you been man?

Making my life what I choose it to be brother....

I choose a happy fun life.

I got a good woman.

I got a good dog.

I got a good job at a good casino.

Man...I love this life!

Wish you were here my good man!

Thats awesome! I knew you were happy you got an awesome woman. Thats half the battle right there.

She is like Rambo....But as sexier....and sweatier....with no guns

My woman is freaking AWESOME.

Don't steal her from me you nasty *****.

The ability to make people laugh and cheer them up is a gift, not a personality disorder! I look forward to going to work every morning, cos me and my mates are cut from the same cloth and I know no matter whats happening in any of our lives that we cheer each other up and laugh any problems off and feel better afterwards. Give me that atmosphere any day, than doom and gloom!

Laughter is the best medicine, as what the saying goes... Simple as that.

bless you izZ>~ Lmao
Thats a great philosophy

Well let's just look a little more closely at the article shall we?

Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, but so are a lot of things. One of the roles of scientific journals is to provide peer review, ie. half of what they publish are easily falsified assertions, that's the point to publishing them in a scientific journal.
It is not media reporting of scientific breakthroughs, which is how the article is misrepresenting the study. It's a falsifiable hypothesis from one particular research group. Now it can be falsified or stand up to peer review within the journal.
Reporting the publication at a major news media forum is premature, it's what news media groups do when they're scratching for a story, so they make one up.

The lead researcher heads a department of experimental psychology. It is not medically qualified psychiatry. It is not even clinical psychology, which at leasts keeps within a set of goalposts given by the medical community. It's experimental psychology, the land of placebo-fairies causing/curing cancer by will of the patient and hypothoses like that.



Let's play opposites. Oh contrare, what if psychotic characteristics were to act only predictably or socially, or to relate predictability and impulsiveness with the capacity for social relationships, and a tendency to assume intimacy. Wait a minute, those are psychotic characterstics! It's psychopath versus sociopath.

1. Psychoses are pathological extremes of behaviour which cause the patient distress. They are never anything else ever.

2. Psychopathy and sociopathy, relating to disposition of patients to experience psychoses are not in the field of clinical psychology, they're in the field of criminology. The function of these behavioural profiles are for identifying, tracking or capturing habitual criminal offenders. Basically you cannot strictly be psychopathic or sociopathic without first breaking the law. That's the difference between clinical psychology and criminology or other forms of psychology.

Sounds like the hed of the study is just trying to make a place in the journals for his "experimental psychology" department, and the big experiment is blurring and mixing clinical psychology with criminology, polishing the turd he made and calling it new.

The article is about a wack****ed study and group of researchers. Believe me it happens all the time in scientific journals. One group in the mid-90s published in Nature the Pyramids at Giza were at least 12,000 years old.
These are hypotheses. They're designed to be falsified, but half of them are so ridiculous if you know anything about their fields, you just laugh them off and roll your eyes.