Humour to humour: Laughing your mind open. [PDF]
, 2013 Humor is known to reduce students’ stress and enhance their learning experience (Steele 1998). The objective of this study is to explore the conduciveness of using self-disclosure, sharing sessions and humor in maintaining a safe, sharing environment ...
Meera Rada Krishnan, *
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Vicarious traumatic exposure among New Zealand health professionals : An exploration of coping strategies and vicarious posttraumatic growth : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 The negative effects of working with trauma survivors have been well documented. This thesis provides an exploration of the less researched positive psychological effects of such work, termed vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG).
Manning-Jones, Shekinah Faith
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“Scientists Joke”: Evolution and Genres of Humour about Science and Scientists in Russia
Styles of Communication, 2017 The paper analyses humour about scientists and humour produced by scientists in Russia. The aim of the study is to track back the evolution of scholarly humour and analyse social factors that stand behind professional humour in the academia. The analysis
Ksenia Shilikhina
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Made-in-Canada Humour is a journey through space and time in Canadian humour. Rasporich, Arts Professor at the University of Calgary, masterly creates a general picture of Canadian humour culture, thus revealing its particularities.
Ioana Ciurezu
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Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Individuals differ in their appreciation of jokes and cartoons with respect to the structure of the humorous material (e.g., whether the jokes and cartoons are can be categorised in terms of incongruity-resolution or in terms of nonsense), as well as ...
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The comic, not the comedy: effect of joke-origin-induced expectancy on cognitive humour. [PDF]
Objectives: The present set of experiments examined whether humour expectancy (determined by the joke teller) impacts the humour evaluation of jokes. Design: Across four experiments, participants rated jokes purportedly delivered via celebrity comedians
Johnson, A.J., Mistry, K.
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Sexism and Jokes: a Case Study [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to analyse how the interviewees reacted to sexist jokes and to compare it to how they reacted to sexist statements, in order to find out if there is a discrepancy between what people perceive as humour and a serious statement ...
Sambati, Giulia
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Definitions of the humorous in Chris Rock and Russell Peters fan blogs: A discussion of the problem of incongruity [PDF]
, 2011 There is an old and unsolved problem in the philosophy of humour that examines the conditions under which some incongruities are deemed funny and some are not.
Weaver, S
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Computers that smile: Humor in the interface [PDF]
, 2002 It is certainly not the case that wen we consider research on the role of human characteristics in the user interface of computers that no attention has been paid to the role of humor.
Nijholt, A.
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