Why? Because sarcasm is actually hostility disguised as humor. Despite smiling outwardly, many people who receive sarcastic comments feel put down and often think the sarcastic person is a jerk.

Different studies at Harvard, MIT, and Northwestern universities show that humor and sarcasm have a strong positive effect on creativity. Here's why--and what you can do about it.

The first study on biting humor in the Spanish language reveals that, to appreciate it, the brain activates a complex network ...

See? Kind of funny, right? Fine, you don't get it. Which is something sarcastic people deal with frequently. For whatever reason, being constantly sarcastic and dry and witty isn't the norm.

Sarcasm is usually connected to humor that isn't really laugh-out-loud funny but is more about using your brain in a creative and intelligent way.

The popularity of online sarcasm makes sense. For one thing, sarcastic comments are often funny, or at least they are packaged as jokes, which means they're more likely to attract Net users ...

The 5 most sarcastic zodiac signs Sarcasm can be a sharp, witty, and sometimes biting form of humor that some zodiac signs wield with expert precision.