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This article weaves a possible way of trauma renegotiation through humour. Using Hannah Gadsby’s account on her process of writing and performing her comedy act Nanette, Peter Levine’s work with trauma and the Female Trickster’s humour, it is possible ...
Cássia Frankenthal Quinlan
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Who laughs? A moment of laughter in Shortbus [PDF]
In his essay On Laughter, first published in France in 1900, Henri Bergson suggested that “our laughter is always the laughter of the group” (2003:5). With this observation in mind, I have to ask: who laughs when we watch a movie?
Yeatman, Bevin
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Organising Therapists’ Emotional-Social Skills: Are Therapists that Different? : A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University, Palmerston North New Zealand [PDF]
Wampold and Imel (2015) argue that therapeutic outcomes may be more dependent on variables associated with therapists than treatment systems. An element of these therapist variables include the emotional and social skills of therapists, however, to date,
Marwick, Andreas
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Humour Runs through the Multicoloured Mosaic of Neuropsychotherapy: Scoping Review
Background. The investigation is devoted to explore the possibilities of humour to treat neuropsychiatric disorders which, in the last decade, have significantly increased. The aim of the study is to describe the growing investigations, in which various
M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis
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Similarities and differences between humorous and surprising products [PDF]
Innovative products can be described as both useful and novel— or ‘unexpected’. Literature suggests that surprise combined with humour may be a powerful tool in creating the positive ‘unexpectedness’ than can enhance perceived value and foster meaningful
Borgianni, Yuri, Hatcher, Gillian
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Humour Integrated Language Learning (HILL)
There has been a notable surge in the studies on humour in the language classroom in the past two or even three decades. This burgeoning literature seems to have already entered the threshold of a field of study.
Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza
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“I did not actually hear George Washington say that”
The topic of US presidential humour has been investigated in the past, specifically as it was used in presidential debates, press conferences, and at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Moshe Machlev
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