A Meeting of Minds: An Alternate Humor for Teaching Mathematics to non-STEM Majors [PDF]
John Allen Paulos argued essentially for three forms of humor dear to mathematics: Incongruity, Gotcha, and Word Play. Unfortunately, these three are often combative forms and easily drive non-STEM majors out of mathematics and statistics. William Dunham
Grawe, Paul H
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The Influence of Culture on Attitudes Towards Humorous Advertising [PDF]
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Liu, Jia +4 more
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Predicting Meaning of Life Based on Optimism and Humorous Styles [PDF]
The present study aimed to predict the meaning of life based on students' optimism and humorous styles. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation.
Karim Sevari, fatemeh farzadi
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Humor styles across 28 countries [PDF]
Responses to a measure of the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, and self-defeating from the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ ; Martin et al. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48–75, 2003) were collected from individuals (N = 8361) in 28 countries encompassing 21 different languages.
Julie Aitken Schermer +39 more
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Parenting Practices, Life Satisfaction, and the Role of Self-Esteem in Adolescents [PDF]
Introduction: Studies have shown significant associations between parenting practices, life satisfaction, and self-esteem, and the role of parenting practices in adolescent adjustment, emphasizing its influence on wellbeing.
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Humor and Attachment: Exploring the Relationships between Insecure Attachment and the Comic Styles
In this study, the relationship between individuals’ insecure attachment styles and eight comic styles was explored. A sample of 636 Italian adults (206 males, 428 females, 2 non-binary), aged 18 to 81 years (M = 41.44; DS = 13.44) completed an online ...
Alberto Dionigi +2 more
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A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of Humor in Sport Psychology Practice [PDF]
‘Creative efforts’, such as the use of humor,have been found to be beneficial to the nurse-patient, teacher-student , and psychologist-patient alliance. Potentially humoruse might benefit the working alliance in applied sport psychology, yet to datethere
Arvinen-Barrow, Monna +3 more
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Appreciation of different styles of humor: An fMRI study
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 ...
Yu-Chen Chan +5 more
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Relationship between Stylistic Characteristics of Humor and Types of Coping Behavior in Students
Background. Today, the development of adaptive coping behavior is extremely relevant. Some studies show that humor is an indicator of psychological adaptation.
Margarita S. Aslanova +3 more
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Coping Strategies and Perceived Support in Adolescents and Young Adults: Predictive Model of Self-Reported Cognitive and Mood Problems [PDF]
The aims of this study were: to assess cognitive and mood problems, perceived social support and coping strategies in adolescence and early adulthood; to understand how coping strategies are related to age, gender and years of schooling; to identify ...
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