Humor, uncertainty, and affiliation: Cooperative and co-operative action in the university science lab

- Humor is a recurrent practice participants use to manage moments of uncertainty.
- Humorous IRFs are composed of cooperative and co-operative actions.
- Humorous response turns can either align or disalign with the action of the IRF.
- Humorous third turns affiliate with response turns while noting their inadequacy.
- Decomposing and reusing resources are key practices for designing humorous IRFs.