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| | Theory of Humor as an IFF - Evolution, Function and Nature of Humor |
 | | Other planes, those not identified as friend, are not really part of that network at all but, for some purposes, it may be useful to see non-friendly but neutral planes as lower still on the hierarchy, with enemy craft at the bottom. |
 | | And, in that competition, humor will help these groups to decide who are their friends and who their enemies. |
 | | However, the IFF theory is, in essence, a theory of how humans behave in groups and it is desirable to go beyond noting this parellelism of properties and identify evidence that humor functions as an IFF in real human groups. |
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