From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The reason sarcasm enhances creativity, according to Gino and her co-authors, is that to both create a sarcastic comment and to interpret the hidden meaning of it requires more creative thinking ...

Sarcasm may be “no big deal” to you, yet hurtful to someone else. If someone calls you out for being sarcastic, resist the urge to defend yourself. Get curious about how the other person ...

If your sense of humor tends to be overly sarcastic, though, that might be a turn-off to your boss or potential employer. It seems like advice that goes without saying, but sometimes we’re ...

How many apologies have been made for incendiary tweets whose sarcastic intent was not immediately clear? And how many times have we agreed that emoticons and other punctuational aids to ...

The title of their presentation was, "Divergent Neuroanatomic Correlates of Sarcasm and Lie Comprehension in Neurodegenerative Disease." In their presentation, Rankin and Shany-Ur showed the data ...

If a British person says, "with the greatest respect." In British sarcasm it means, "I think you are an idiot." A U.K. poll says most Americans don't get the British art of passive aggression.

A robot that can understand sarcasm in social media posts better than humans could provide a breakthrough in protecting people from abuse online. Researchers at MIT have created an algorithm that ...

The title of their presentation was, "Divergent Neuroanatomic Correlates of Sarcasm and Lie Comprehension in Neurodegenerative Disease." In a presentation today at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the ...