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Motivated Social Affordance Judgments of Humor Styles

Psychological Reports, 2023
Despite 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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Humor Styles and Symbolic Boundaries

Journal of Literary Theory, 2009
Humor is strongly related to group boundaries. Jokes and other humorous utterances often draw on implicit references and inside knowledge; they tend to refer to sensitive topics which may offend people; and they ideally incite laughter, one of the strongest markers of social solidarity and emotional attunement.
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Humor and Creative Life Styles

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2001
This paper is based upon the writings of William James in the late 19th century, and Alfred Adler and Sigmund Freud in the 20th, enriched by the contributions of later personality and role theorists. The self is defined as the unique organization of each person; a style is the self in action.
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Alcohol dependence and humor styles

Current Psychology, 2019
This study explores the relationship between alcohol dependence and humor styles based on a large data set of 2752 adults. Participants completed a humor styles questionnaire, assessing four dimensions: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating.
Julie Aitken Schermer, Marisa L. Kfrerer, Michael T. Lynskey   +2 more
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Correlations between Humor Styles and Loneliness

Psychological Reports, 2005
In 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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Humor styles and leadership styles: community college presidents

2009
In sum, affiliative and self-enhancing humor had a positive relationship with transformational leadership. Self-enhancing humor also had a positive relationship with the contingent-reward subscale of transactional leadership; while aggressive humor was inversely related to transformational leadership and to the contingent-reward subscale of ...
Carrica, Jennifer L., Makela, Carole
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Prejudice-relevant correlates of humor temperaments and humor styles

Personality and Individual Differences, 2010
Abstract 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, Cara C. MacInnis, Jonathan Rush   +2 more
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Humor Styles, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Happiness

Psychological Reports, 2014
This 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, Katy Wing-Yin, Liu, Feng, Jiang, Neelam Arjan, Hiranandani   +3 more
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Adult Playfulness, Humor Styles, and Subjective Happiness

Psychological Reports, 2016
Playfulness has been referred to as a disposition that involves reframing a situation to amuse others and to make the situation more stimulating and enjoyable. It may serve to shift one’s perspective when dealing with environmental threats. Despite all the benefits of playfulness towards psychological well-being, it remains a largely understudied ...
Xiao D, Yue, Chun-Lok, Leung, Neelam A, Hiranandani   +2 more
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Humor Styles in Healthcare Professionals

Holistic Nursing Practice
Using humor as a caregiving strategy can help professionals perceive daily and work-related events from a more optimistic and light-hearted perspective. The main objective of this study was to analyze humor styles among health care professionals. A cross-sectional and correlational design was employed.
Miriam, Leñero-Cirujano, Mª Nieves, Moro-Tejedor, Juan Ignacio, Torres-González, Héctor, González-Ordi, Jacinto, Gómez-Higuera   +4 more
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