| Abstract: Humor has been shown to have a wide range of benefits for mental health, physical health, and social interactions. Those who make jokes or laugh at others’ jokes are viewed as more confident people, more intelligent colleagues and peers, and more effective leaders. In addition to the benefits correlated with humor, much of the existing literature from across the field of Psychology has focused on the categorization or developmental trajectory of humor. Very little research has focused on the learning history necessary to engage in this repertoire or the effectiveness of teaching procedures to increase humor comprehension and joke-telling. Behavior Analysis seems particularly well suited to this task, and there are a few key conceptual accounts in the literature that provide a solid ground for this work. In addition, a handful of studies have now investigated various aspects of humor from a behavioral perspective. We will review this work and make the case for more behavior-analytic work across several conceptual and applied areas of humor comprehension, humor appreciation, and joke-telling. |