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Press Releases About My Research – No Interview

Media Outlet: Enterprising Investor

Interview or Feature/News Story: Just a reference to our work
Title: E se il segreto dell’umorismo fosse scritto nella meccanica quantistica?
URL: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2017/07/28/weekend-reads-funny-computers/
Date: July 28, 2017

Media outlet: Kerrisdale Playbook

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Creativity and the Evolution of Worldviews: An Interview with Liane Gabora
URL: http://www.kccplaybook.org/2017/07/14/creativity-and-the-evolution-of-the-worldviews-an-interview-with-liane-gabora/
Date: July 14, 2017

Media Outlet: Frogheart (Australian version)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Section beginning ‘Aiming to answer the question of what kind of formal theory is needed to model the cognitive representation of a joke’
URL: http://www.frogheart.ca/?tag=australia
Date: July 7, 2017

Media Outlet: Scientia (Romania)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Discussion of our work
Title: Teoria „cuantică” a umorului
URL: http://www.scientia.ro/blogurile-scientia/blog-catalina-curceanu/7057-teoria-cuantica-a-umorului.html
Date: May 27, 2017

Media Outlet: Saurium (Amazing Destinations section)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Discussion of our work
Title: The Science Behind Humor
URL: http://saurium.com/the-science-behind-humour/
Date: April 25, 2017

Media Outlet: Frogheart (Italian version)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Why are jokes funny? There may be a quantum explanation
URL: http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Cronaca/2017/4/20/PERCHE-RIDIAMO- Un-nuovo-modello-matematico- ci-spiega- perche-ci- si-diverte/760398/
Date: April 21, 2017

Media Outlet: physicsworld.com

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum punchlines
URL: http://blog.physicsworld.com/tag/science-and- society/
Date: April 21, 2017

Media Outlet: galileonet (Italy)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: E se il segreto dell’umorismo fosse scritto nella meccanica quantistica?
URL: http://www.galileonet.it/2017/04/segreto-dellumorismo- fosse-scritto- nella-meccanica-quantistica/
Date: April 21, 2017

Media Outlet: Cronaca (Italian)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: PERCHE’ RIDIAMO?/ Un nuovo modello matematico ci spiega perché ci si diverte
URL: http://www.frogheart.ca/?p=23452
Date: April 20, 2017

Media Outlet: SANLIURFA (Turkey)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Kuantum teorisi şakaların neden komik olduğunu açıklayabilir mi?
URL: http://www.sanliurfa.biz/kuantum-teorisi- sakalarin-neden- komik-oldugunu- aciklayabilir-mi-3184.html
Date: April 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Syahrazade (Indonesia)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Cak Lontong dan Teori Kuantum Tentang Humor (Translation: Cak Lontong and Quantum Theory About Humor)
URL: http://syahrazade.com/cak-lontong- dan-teori- kuantum-tentang- humor/
Date: April 18, 2017

Media Outlet: BendedReality.com

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum theory attempts to explain why jokes are funny
URL: http://bendedreality.com/quantum-theory- attempts-to- explain-why- jokes-are- funny/
Date: April 13, 2017

Media Outlet: La Republica

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: E se il segreto dell'umorismo fosse scritto nella meccanica quantistica?
URL:http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2017/04/11/news/e_se_il_segreto_dell_umorismo_fosse_scritto_nella_meccanica_quantistica_-162746262/?rss
Date: April 12, 2017

Media Outlet: Curiosity.com

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Why scientists want to use quantum theory to explain why jokes are funny
URL: https://curiosity.com/topics/why-scientists- want-to- use-quantum- theory-to- explain-why- jokes-
are-funny- curiosity/
Date: April 12, 2017

Media Outlet: BARCELONADOT

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Los algoritmos del humor
URL: http://www.barcelonadot.com/robots-con- la-capacidad- de-hacer- reir/
Date: April 11, 2017

Media Outlet: AllAboutNews

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory Could Explain Our Sense of Humor
URL: http://allaboutnews.net/37084/quantum-theory- explain-sense- humor/
Date: April 10, 2017

Media Outlet: Grupo Interdisciplinario (Argentina)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Humor and Quantum Theory
URL: https://grupoappeler.wordpress.com/category/freud/
Date: April 10, 2017

Media Outlet: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Interview or Feature/News Story: Interview
Date: April 5, 2017

Media Outlet: La Vanguardia

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Los algoritmos del humor
URL: http://www.lavanguardia.com/tecnologia/20170408/421527558553/algoritmos-humor.html
Date: April 8, 2017

Media Outlet: am.com (Mexico)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Humor y teoría cuántica
URL: https://www.am.com.mx/2017/04/08/leon/opinion/humor-y- teoria-cuantica35278
Date: April 8, 2017

Media Outlet: Laboratory News

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: The Science Behind Humor
URL: http://www.labnews.co.uk/comment/science-behind- humour-01- 04-2017/
Date: April 1, 2017

Media Outlet: ifuun (China)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: 幽默感涉及的認知過程竟涉及量子現象。那麼,可以藉助量子力學來揭示幽默的深層機制嗎?
URL: http://www.ifuun.com/a20173311537062/
Date: March 31, 2017

Media Outlet: Technology Reviews (Spanish edition)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: La curiosa relación entre el sentido del humor y la superposición cuántica
URL: https://www.technologyreview.es/s/7519/la-curiosa- relacion-entre- el-sentido- del-humor- y-la-superposicion-cuantica
Date: March 30, 2017

Media Outlet: 搜狐 (China)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: 量子力学揭示幽默的深层机制,语义冲突就像量子态叠加 (Translation: Quantum mechanics reveals a deep mechanism of humor, and semantic conflicts are like quantum state superposition)
URL: http://www.sohu.com/a/131236449_354973
Date: March 30, 2017

Media Outlet: ZBRUC (Ukraine)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: КВАНТОВА ТЕОРІЯ ПОЯСНЮЄ ГРУ СЛІВ (Translation: Quantum Theory Explains Wordplay)
URL: https://zbruc.eu/node/64044
Date: March 28, 2017

Media Outlet: Health Medicine Network (This is a different article from the March 18 one)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory help explain why jokes are funny?
URL: http://healthmedicinet.com/i/can-quantum- theory-help- explain-why- jokes-are- funny/
Date: March 27, 2017

Media Outlet: University Herald

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory Holds the Key to Our Sense of Humor
URL: http://www.universityherald.com/articles/70764/20170327/quantum-theory- holds-the- key-to- our-
sense-of- humor.htm
Date: March 27, 2017

Media Outlet: Max Mag Greece

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Μπορεί να εξηγήσει η Κβαντική Θεωρία γιατί κάτι είναι αστείο
URL: http://www.maxmag.gr/epistimi/bori-na- exigisi-i- kvantiki-theoria- kati-astio/
Date: March 27, 2017

Media Outlet: N+1 (Spanish edition)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: El humor, explicado con las matemáticas detrás de la mecánica cuántica
URL: https://nmas1.org/news/2017/03/28/humor-cuantico
Date: March 27, 2017

Media Outlet: BON PUR LORYAN (Turkey)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Bir şeyleri neden komik buluruz?
URL: http://bonpurloryan.com/2017/03/27/mizah-kavramina- kuantum-yorum- 10734/
Date: March 27, 2017

Media Outlet: big think

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory Could Explain Our Sense of Humor, Study Shows
URL: http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/quantum- theory-could- explain-our- sense-of- humor-study- shows
Date: March 26, 2017

Media Outlet: Science & Vie (French)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: L'HUMOUR SUIT LES LOIS DE LA PHYSIQUE QUANTIQUE
URL: https://www.science-et- vie.com/article/des-chercheurs- decouvrent-que- la-physique- quantique-fait-rire-8116
Date: March 26, 2017

Media Outlet: Science Alert

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Researchers Say the Maths Behind Quantum Theory Can Explain Humour
URL: http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-used- the-maths- behind-quantum- theory-to- explain-humour
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: Physics World

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum punchlines, the cloud atlas, NASA schooled
URL: http://blog.physicsworld.com/2017/03/24/quantum-punchlines- the-cloud- atlas-nasa- schooled/#more-14370
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: The Scottish Sun

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Experts work out why Scottish Sun Headlines are so funny, using quantum theory
URL: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/773598/scottish-sun- headlines-puns/
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: The Light Media

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Researchers Say the Maths Behind Quantum Theory Can Explain Humour
URL: http://thelightmedia.com/posts/56607-researchers- say-the- maths-behind- quantum-theory- can-explain-humour
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: Horsetalk

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Behind Every Good Horse Joke is Quantum Theory, Research Suggests
URL: http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2017/03/24/horse-joke- quantum-theory- research/#axzz4eX98RerV
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: Gizmodo

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: E se il segreto dell'umorismo fosse scritto nella meccanica quantistica?
URL: http://es.gizmodo.com/como-las- matematicas-detras- de-la- teoria-cuantica- podri-1793598329
Date: March 24, 2017

Media Outlet: UBC News

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory Can Help Us Identify Why We Find Jokes Funny
URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2017/03/23/quantum-theory- can-help- us-identify- why-we- find-jokes- funny/
Date: March 23, 2017

Media Outlet: Hindustan Times

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory Can Help Us Identify Why We Find Jokes Funny
URL: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/showarticle.aspx?article=9fc586c6-ca18- 47e2-9d7b-93224ec947d7
Date: March 23, 2017

Media Outlet: XMAN (Czech Republic)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Vtipy podle vzorečků kvantové teorie. Věda se snaží pochopit humor
URL: https://xman.idnes.cz/humor-kvantove- teorie-06l- /xman-styl.aspx?c=A170322_163241_xman-styl_fro
Date: March 23, 2017

Media Outlet: MIT Technology Review

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: The Curious Case of the Quantum Theory of Humor
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603948/the-curious- case-of- the-quantum- theory-of- humor/
Date: March 22, 2017

Media Outlet: Frontiers Blog

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why puns are funny?
URL: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/03/22/can-quantum- theory-explain- why-puns- are-funny/
Date: March 22, 2017

Media Outlet: Bezopastnost (Russia)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: КВАНТОВАЯ МЕХАНИКА ПОМОЖЕТ КАНАДСКИМ УЧЕНЫМ ПОНЯТЬ ШУТКИ
URL: https://bezopasnost-tv.ru/news/kvantovaja_mekhanika_pomozhet_kanadskim_uchenym_ponjat_shutki_8939
Date: March 22, 2017

Media Outlet: The Sun (UK)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Boffins uncover why our headlines are so hilarious… and the answer involves quantum physics
URL: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3137806/boffins-uncover- why-our- headlines-are- so-hilarious- and-the-answer- involves-quantum- physics/
Date: March 21, 2017

Media Outlet: Scinexx: Das WissenMagazin (Germany)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Skurril: Quantentheorie erklärt Wortwitz Was Humor mit Quantenphysik zu tun hat
URL: http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell- 21275-2017- 03-21.html
Date: March 21, 2017

Media Outlet: Batrachospermum (Russia)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Квантовая теория юмора
URL: http://batrachospermum.ru/2017/03/quantum-theory- of-humor/
Date: March 21, 2017

Media Outlet: Real Clear Science

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Physicists Develop Quantum Model for Humor
URL: http://www.eurasiareview.com/19032017-can- quantum-theory- explain-why- jokes-are- funny/
Date: March 20, 2017

Media Outlet: ZME Science

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum mechanics may explain why some jokes are funny — and others, not so much
URL: http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and- brain/quantum-formalism- funny-puny/
Date: March 20, 2017

Media Outlet: Cosmos Magazine

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Two quantum physicists walk in and out of a bar…
URL: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/two-quantum- physicists-walk- in-and- out-of- a-bar
Date: March 20, 2017

Media Outlet: Postimees (Estonia)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Naljakas, aga ei ole ka – teadlased üritavad selgitada huumorit kvant-naljade teooriaga
URL: http://tehnika.postimees.ee/4051795/naljakas-aga- ei-ole- ka-teadlased- uritavadselgitada- huumorit-kvant-naljade- teooriaga
Date: March 20, 2017

Media Outlet: UBC News

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Why do we find jokes funny? Quantum theory might explain
URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2017/03/20/why-do- we-find- jokes-funny- quantum-theory- might-explain/
Date: March 20, 2017

Media Outlet: Eurasia Review

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
URL: http://www.eurasiareview.com/19032017-can- quantum-theory- explain-why- jokes-are- funny/
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Business Standard News

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Why are jokes funny? Ask quantum theory
URL: http://www.business-standard.com/article/news- ians/why-jokes- are-funny- ask-quantum- theory-
117031900281_1.html
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Levante (Madrid)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: ¿Por qué nos reímos con los chistes? La teoría cuántica puede explicarlo
URL: http://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2017/03/19/reimos- chistes-teoria- cuantica-explicarlo/1543380.html
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Bizsiziz (Turkey)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Kuantum Teorisi Şakaların Neden Komik Algılandığını Açıklayabilir Mi?
URL: http://www.bizsiziz.com/kuantum-teorisi- sakalarin-komik- algilandigini-aciklayabilir- mi/
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Boston Red Socks

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Two quantum physicists walk in and out of a bar ... Can humour be reduced to a pure equation? And what do dead cats have to do with it? Cathal O’Connell explains.
URL:http://www.forums.mlb.com/discussions/Boston_Red_Sox/General/OTClimateChangedefeatedKhansinvasion/ml-redsox/286767.1157?redirCnt=1&nav=messages
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: The Economic Times (India)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Why do we find jokes funny? Quantum theory might explain
URL:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/57717497.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utmmedium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Date: March 19, 2017

Media Outlet: Health Medicinet

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
URL: http://healthmedicinet.com/i/can-quantum- theory-explain- why-jokes- are-funny/
Date: March 18, 2017

Media Outlet: EurekAlert: The Global Source for Science News

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/f- cqt031717.php
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Phys.Org

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
URL: https://phys.org/news/2017-03- quantum-theory- funny.html
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Science Newsline

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
URL: http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2017031715470013.html
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Europa Press

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: ¿Puede la teoría cuántica explicar la gracia de un chiste?
URL: http://www.europapress.es/ciencia/laboratorio/noticia-puede- teoria-cuantica- explicar-graciachiste-20170317165815.html
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Signs of the Times

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum theory: Can it explain why jokes are funny?
URL: https://www.sott.net/article/345557-Quantum- Theory-Can- it-explain- why-jokes- are-funny
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Science Daily

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny? 
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170317102438.htm
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: RMF24 (Poland)

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Kwantowa teoria... żartu? URL: http://www.rmf24.pl/nauka/news-kwantowa- teoria-zartu,nId,2370512
Date: March 17, 2017

Media Outlet: Notey

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Quantum Theory: Can it Explain Why Jokes are Funny?
URL: http://www.notey.com/blogs/explaining-the- joke
Date: March 17, 2017

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Condemned to Depth: Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms URL: http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/172#_edn8
Topic: Visual Creativity
Date: March 16, 2017

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: The Origins of Creativity URL: http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v26/n1s/full/scientificamericancreativity0317-4.html
Topic: Creativity
Date: February 16, 2017

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Badaczka memów: są jak geny dziedzictwa kultury (Translation: Meme Scientist: They are like genes of cultural heritage) URL: http://www.super-nowa.pl/kultura- cat/art-badaczka- memow-sa- jak-geny- dziedzictwa-kultury,6418
Topic: Cultural evolution
Date: January 14, 2017

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: The ‘It Is What It Is’ Generation URL: https://www.elliotborgesthinks.com/single-post/2016/12/16/The- It-is- What-It- Is-Generation
Topic: An article about my Psychology Today blog about the phrase ‘It is what it is’ (this is the least complimentary of all the media stories mentioned here)
Date: Dec 15, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Badaczka memów: są jak geny dziedzictwa kultury URL: http://kurier.pap.pl/depesza/170632/Badaczka-memow- sa-jak- geny-dziedzictwa- kultury
Topic: Cultural evolution – memes
Date: Dec 5, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Breve indagine sulla creatività (Translation: Brief survey on creativity) URL: http://www.mywhere.it/creativita/
Topic: Creativity
Date: Nov 23, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor? URL: http://wideorbits.com/science/essay-the- computational-creation- myth/
Topic: Creativity
Date: Nov 1, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Ripeness URL: https://okanaganokanogan.com/tag/sumac/
Topic: Creativity (contains discussion of a book chapter by myself and Nancy Holmes) Date: Oct 6, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: Cartoons: The Art of Dissenters URL: ismailkar.com/vla2016.htm
Topic: Humor
Date: Sept 12, 2016

Interview or Feature/News Story: Feature/News Story
Title: 四萬多年前的洞穴壁畫,其實不是人類最早的創造力遺跡,我們的祖先在更早的時期就跳出了思考的框架!(Translation: The Evolution of Creativity; I believe this is a translation of the print article listed above) URL: http://sa.ylib.com/MagArticle.aspx?Unit=featurearticles&id=3017
Topic: Creativity
Date: May 17, 2016

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