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The Effects of Humor in the Media: A Critical Review of Experimental Research [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesHumor has long been of interest to media effects scholars. As meta-analyses and systematic reviews accumulate, there is a need to continue scrutinizing the means of knowledge production.
Nathan Miczo, Danyang Zhao
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Appreciation of different styles of humor: An fMRI study
Scientific Reports, 2018 Humor styles are important in facilitating social relationships. Following humor styles theory, this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study is the first to use “one-liner” humor to investigate the neural correlates involved in appreciating ...
Ching-Lin Wu +2 more
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“Keep joking”: appreciation and production of humor in aging [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyHumor is a universal human experience, enjoyed and expressed across all stages of life. While numerous studies have explored the developmental aspects of humor, relatively little research has focused on humor in older adults.
Lucie Hevin +4 more
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The comic, not the comedy: effect of joke-origin-induced expectancy on cognitive humour. [PDF]
Objectives: The present set of experiments examined whether humour expectancy (determined by the joke teller) impacts the humour evaluation of jokes. Design: Across four experiments, participants rated jokes purportedly delivered via celebrity comedians
Mistry, K., Johnson, A.J.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 The media increasingly speak of a care crisis. Systematic support is needed to prepare nursing apprentices for the high demands of their profession and to reduce the number of nurses who finally quit. Particularly in stressful jobs like nursing, humor as
Marek Bartzik +8 more
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Analysis and Forecasting Drought Days Using Artificial Neural Networks Model (Case Study: Station Tehran) [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2017 Artificial neural networks as a nonlinear techniques in climate and hydrology studies are important to have. Climate change and the global warming of the climate phenomenon known as persistence of drought followed Number of dry days.
Hossein asakereh, Farieba Sayadi
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 2023 Background Findings show that the complex nature of humor and its personality basis can be more comprehensively understood if humor styles are analyzed simultaneously within humor types, rather than separately.
Đorđe Čekrlija +2 more
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Subversive humor in Spanish stand-up comedy [PDF]
, 2020 This paper aims to explore subversive humor in Spanish stand-up comedy by analyzing the work of two well-known Spanish female comedians, Eva Hache and Patricia Sornosa.
Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background It has been shown that fears and misconceptions negatively affect the willingness to donate organs. Empirical studies have examined health communication strategies that serve to debunk these fears.
Lisa Heitland +2 more
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, 2023 The aim of this experimental study was to clarify whether affective states with different arousal and valence levels influence the perceived funniness and aversiveness shown as a response to humor stimuli.
Acosta, Alberto +3 more
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