![]() ![]() Freud declared people incapable of knowing exactly what it is they find amusing due to the complex nature of their conscious and subconscious minds. They derived the critical concepts of the theory from Sigmund Freud's Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, originally published in 1905. ![]() The formal theory is attributed to Zillmann & Bryant (1980) in their article, "Misattribution Theory of Tendentious Humor", published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Misattribution is one of many theories of humor that describes an audience's inability to identify exactly why they find a joke to be funny. ( September 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ![]() This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. ![]()
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