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Birds of a Feather Laugh Together: An Investigation of Humour Style Similarity in Married Couples

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016
The present research investigated the degree of similarity in humour styles between spouses as assessed with the Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). Furthermore, self-esteem was investigated as a potential moderator of partner humour style similarity.
Christian Martin Hahn, Lorne John Campbell   +1 more
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Exploring humour within the early childhood period from children’s and teachers’ perspectives

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine humour from the perspectives of 60-72-month-old children and their teachers in Turkey. A phenomenological method was used to collect data through semi-structured interviews, which included each child making a ...
Betül Yılmaz, Feyza Tantekin Erden
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Do Dark Humour Users Have Dark Tendencies? Relationships between Dark Humour, the Dark Tetrad, and Online Trolling

Behavioral Sciences
Humour and antisocial behaviour on the internet are under-researched. Online spaces have opened a gateway for new ways to express unrestrained humour (e.g., dark humour) and ways to behave antisocially (e.g., online trolling).
Sophie Voisey, Sonja Heintz
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Conversational Agents, Humorous Act Construction, and Social Intelligence [PDF]

, 2005
Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and \ud in a similar way humour can be used to solve communication problems that arise\ud with human-computer interaction.
Nijholt, Anton
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Creating good feelings about unhealthy food: children’s televised ‘advertised diet’ on the island of Ireland, in a climate of regulation [PDF]

, 2015
Childhood eating habits and associations with advertising persist through life. Obesity is high in Ireland, and is increasing worldwide. Links between food promotion and children’s diets are well-established, and the World Health Organisation has called ...
Bergin, Rebecca, Kerr, Maeve, Livingstone, Barbara, Murrin, Celine, O’Brien, Sinead, Tatlow-Golden, Mimi   +5 more
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Polarised but similar

The European Journal of Humour Research
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere.
Liisi Laineste, Anastasiya Fiadotava
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Treasures in jokes and cartoons: You really must be joking! [PDF]

, 2007
Humour has been practically neglected in the teaching of English in Malaysia and Asia as well, perhaps due to the conservative nature of its people. Yet, we go through cartoons in the dailies, enjoy jokes over the radio and try by all means not to miss ...
Vellaykuti, Pokar
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Laughing at lunacy: othering and comic ambiguity in popular humour about mental distress [PDF]

, 2012
Jokes and humour about mental distress are said by anti-stigma campaigners to be no laughing matter. The article takes issue with this viewpoint arguing that this is clearly not the case since popular culture past and present has laughed at the antics of
Billig M., Crisp A.H., Cross S., Crossley N., Curran J., Darnton R., Foucault M., Freud S., Games A., Gilman S., Gilman S., Harper S., Ingram A., Klein N., Kromm J., Kullman C.H., Lockyer S., Palmer J., Philo G., Pickering M., Porter R., Porter R., Porter R., Porter R., Rose N., Sartorius N., Sayce L., Scull A., Shorter E., Simon Cross, Thornicroft G., Wagg S., Wahl O.   +32 more
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Critical Thinking Dispositions and Humour Styles in Portuguese University Students

Education Sciences
Critical thinking dispositions are essential motivational drivers for intellectual excellence; yet their relationship with socio-emotional traits, such as humour, remains under-researched.
Eva Morais, José Lopes, Felicidade Morais, Helena Silva, Sandra Ricardo   +4 more
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Comic innocence

The European Journal of Humour Research
In recent years, humour has re-entered the public sphere as a serious and potentially explosive topic of debate, giving rise to social conflicts and controversies.
Dick Zijp
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