Cogent GerontologyThe purpose of this study was to explore older adults' (60+) perceptions and experiences of humour, whilst also examining how responses varied based on gender and well-being scores.
Heather Heap +2 more
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LATENT COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF HUMOUR: A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING CREATION AND MEANING OF HUMOUR [PDF]
Istraživanja u PedagogijiThree great theories of humour aspire to summarize the meaning of humour into one formula. Since humour is a complex phenomenon, with a number of different forms, it is necessary to analyze a number of humour patterns in order to create a more reliable ...
Radojica (Rade) Bojanović
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Workplace humour, compassion, and professional quality of life among medical staff
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2023 Background: Professional quality of life pertains to the balance between compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. In recent years, there was an increase in compassion fatigue among medical staff due to the pandemic, all over the world, while ...
Irina-Georgeta Timofeiov-Tudose +1 more
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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
, 2013 Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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Teachers’ perceptions of humour as a classroom teaching, interaction, and management tool
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 Although research into humour in education contexts has increased sharply over the past decade, there are still relatively few studies related to its impact on specific elements of classroom dynamics such as teaching, student/teacher interaction, and ...
Michael Lovorn, Calli Holaway
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Photobombing: Mobility, Humour and Culture [PDF]
, 2010 The photobomb, in name and practice, is a phenomenon of Web2.0 – in the sense of being a participatory and read/write Web. This paper contributes to the academic discourse concerning the anthropology of the Internet.
Fletcher, Gordon, Greenhill, Anita
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Epistemic Vigilance, Cautious Optimism and Sophisticated Understanding [PDF]
, 2012 Humans have developed a critical alertness to the believability and reliability of communication: epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010). It is responsible for trusting interlocutors and believing interpretations.
Padilla Cruz Manuel
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Satire and Geopolitics: Vulgarity, Ambiguity and the Body Grotesque in South Park [PDF]
, 2016 Humour and laughter have become the subject of recent geopolitical scrutiny. Scholars have explored the affirmative and liberatory possibilities of humour, and the affective bodily dimensions of laughter as tools for transformative action in critical ...
Thorogood, Joe
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Humour socialisation. Why the Danes are not as funny as they think they are
Globe, 2021 The article presents the main idea from my recently published book on Danes’ use of humour in professional relations with non-Danes. The key notion is humour socialisation.
Lita Lundquist
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Intraocular penetration of penciclovir after oral administration of famciclovir: a population pharmacokinetic model [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives We developed a population model that describes the ocular penetration and pharmacokinetics of penciclovir in human aqueous humour and plasma after oral administration of famciclovir.
Baglivo, Edoardo +6 more
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