About
Hello!
My name is Luri Lee. I am a junior from Virginia who likes to draw and play piano. As a kid I always deeply admired people who were humorous, and strived to be like them (despite failing miserably). Furthermore, I developed an obsession with philosophy and psychology, which never truly went away. Soon enough, my love for pretending to make deep revelations about life quickly gave way to my self-awareness of how pretentious I was becoming, and I started obsessing over humor and humility instead. My weirdly hypocritical dislike for intellectualism increased throughout my experience in my school’s gifted program, which I had been in since the third grade. To me humor became some sort of magic that, when wielded, could make the world a marginally less worse place.
Unfortunately for me, I’m not very funny. Unfortunately for you, I have constructed a genius ploy to continue obsessing over humor without needing to be funny. That’s right, folks; I’ve started a blog on humor psychology. I know I probably won’t make a dent in the mountains of rising mental health rates in the youth, but I just want to make people happy. Or at least educated. Happy and educated, if I’m lucky. Perhaps by sharing my findings I could learn alongside my audience how humor can make a difference, no matter how small. Humor psychology is already such a fascinating area, which is why I believe it has the potential to provide insight on various facets of the world.
Bits of Wits is aimed for 7th-12th grade audiences. I plan to write about topics such as types of humor, humor in social interactions, humor in relation to health, and humor theories. Articles will be released on a bi-monthly basis. Thank you for reading this far!