The paradox of sarcasm: Theory of mind and sarcasm use in adults

Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China.

“…That is, in the UK, participants who had higher levels of ToM ability tended to rate sarcasm as being more amusing and less aggressive; thus, they may be more likely to use it. The slightly positive association between ToM and sarcasm use tendency for Chinese participants was partially consistent with the findings of previous research, which was also conducted in Chinese by Zhu and Wang (2020), who showed that Chinese participants who had very advanced ToM ability demonstrated slightly higher tendency to use sarcasm. We suggest that the different results might be due to task differences, that is, self-reporting sarcasm use tendency using rating scales, or rating the likelihood of using certain sarcastic As for perspective taking ability and sarcasm interpretation, ratings of perspective taking ability were positively associated with ratings of sarcasm in both the UK and China.…”

“…Secondly, the individual differences effects were analyzed using multiple regressions with cultural group (the UK vs. China) included as a predictor. All data and analysis scripts are available here (Zhu & Filik, 2022): https://osf.io/a5pwn/.…”

“…We report all data exclusions, manipulations, and measures. All the research materials, data, and analysis code are available through the Open Science Framework (Zhu & Filik, 2022): https://osf.io/ a5pwn/. Data were analyzed using R, Version 4.0.3 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package lme4, Version 1.2.1335 (Bates et al, 2015).…”

“…Thus, there were six versions of the questionnaire and each version included 48 experimental scenarios and 16 fillers. All versions of the experimental materials and fillers are available here (Zhu & Filik, 2022): https:// osf.io/a5pwn/. The order of the scenarios was randomized separately for each participant and each version was randomly distributed to different participants through the randomization function of Qualtrics.…”

¡Qué maravilla! Multimodal Sarcasm Detection in Spanish: a Dataset and a Baseline

“…Understanding sarcasm is difficult even for us humans as it requires certain mental capacities such as a theory of mind (see Zhu and Wang 2020) and it is very dependent on the context and speaker who is being sarcastic. There are also very different view to sarcasm in the literature, for example, according to Kumon-Nakamura et al (1995) sarcasm requires an allusion to a failed expectation and pragmatic insincerity (see Grice 1975) to be present in the same time.…”