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Humor Style Clusters: Exploring Managerial Humor
International Journal of Business Communication, 2015The current study is the first to explore the relationships between managerial humor and workplace facets using cluster analysis. Two-hundred and two employed adults rated their managers’ humor and workplace facets online. K-means cluster analyses identified three managerial humor clusters, mostly replicating those found in the existing literature.
Thomas Rhys Evans, Gail Steptoe-Warren
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Humor styles in neurodevelopmental conditions
2023This data set originates from an online survey-based study distributed to parents of young individuals with autism, Williams syndrome, or Down syndrome. It was distributed in the UK and assess humor styles (HSQ), social difficulties (SRS-2) and mental health (SDQ).
Samson, Andrea, Treichel, Noémie
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Motivated Social Affordance Judgments of Humor Styles
Psychological Reports, 2023Despite the ingratiating function of humor, not all humor is created equal. Individual differences in humor styles may inform perceptions of whether prospective group members afford affiliative opportunities, with affiliative humor being regarded as especially beneficial. In this research, we tasked participants with evaluating social targets espousing
Mitch Brown, Dalton Holt
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Prejudice-relevant correlates of humor temperaments and humor styles
Personality and Individual Differences, 2010Abstract Given the field’s interest in humor-relevant individual differences in general, we explored the extent to which humor styles and temperament are correlated with individual difference predictors of prejudice. Participants ( n = 136) completed the humor styles questionnaire, the state-trait cheerfulness inventory-(traits), and measures of ...
Gordon Hodson +2 more
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The interpersonal meaning of humor styles
Humor, 2014AbstractIn order to investigate the interpersonal meaning of humor, the relations between humor styles and the Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) were examined. One-hundred and twenty-seven participants reported their humor styles using the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). These participants' interpersonal styles were also assessed using the eight octants
Takakuni Suzuki
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“Humor Style” and Understanding of Editorial Satire
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1990Scores for 106 college students on a “Humor Style” scale were not related to the understanding of three editorial satires. Ratings of satires' funniness and interestingness tend to correlate, providing evidence of a general “satire appreciation” factor in college students. The items in the “Humor Style” scale seem to measure humor style.
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Correlations between Humor Styles and Loneliness
Psychological Reports, 2005In a previous study, a significant negative correlation between shyness with affiliative humor and a significant positive one with self-defeating humor were reported. Since shyness and loneliness share many of the same characteristics, poor social skills and negative affect, for example, significant negative correlations of loneliness with affiliative ...
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Humorous Responses to Interpersonal Complaints: Effects of Humor Style and Nonverbal Expression
The Journal of Psychology, 2012Based on disposition theory (Zillmann & Cantor, 1996), this study assessed reactions to vignettes in which individuals humorously respond to complaints from their partners. Vignettes varied based upon the sex and affective expression (positive/negative) of the speaker, and style of humor used (affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, self-defeating ...
Amy M, Bippus +2 more
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Humor Styles, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Happiness
Psychological Reports, 2014This study examined how humor styles could mediate the effect of self-esteem on subjective happiness. 227 Hong Kong undergraduate students completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire, the Roxsenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale.
Xiao Dong, Yue +3 more
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Humor Styles in Younger Children
2019The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the adult HSQ was first adapted for children aged 11–16 years and then for younger children aged 8–11 years.
Lucy Amelia James, Claire Louise Fox
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