In an old Saturday Night Live skit, actor Garrett Morris rubbed two balloons on his sweater, and they stuck to his chest. It was a science experiment he called “fun with friction.” In video games, ...

Think about the last time you made a purchase using your phone. Maybe you were at a coffee shop and when your turn came, you opened your payment app, tapped your phone on the payment device, grabbed ...

In the corpus of the science of fun, there is a type of enjoyment that goes against the grain of seeking comfort and ease: “Type II Fun” (academically more often referred to as “hard fun”). Although ...