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The Social Account of Humour

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2021
AbstractPhilosophical accounts of humour standardly account for humour in terms of what happens within a person. On these internalist accounts, humour is to be understood in terms of cognition, perception, and sensation. These accounts, while valuable, are poorly situated to engage the social functions of humour.
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Humour processing deficits in individuals with social anhedonia

Psychiatry Research, 2019
Humour processing comprises the humour comprehension and the humour appreciation phases. Patients with schizophrenia have impaired humour processing. However, it is unclear whether such deficits affect subclinical populations such as individuals with social anhedonia. Our study recruited forty-eight individuals with high levels of social anhedonia (HSA,
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Styles in humour and social self‐images

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1975
Abstract.— The three‐dimensional Sense‐of‐Humour Questionnaire (SHQ) was coordinated with items based upon social self‐image related to three styles in humour‐“funny” wit, “sarcastic” wit, and “mixed” wit. The total questionnaire was answered by male and female students in college (average age: 17) and teacher's certificate school (average age: 25) to ...
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The Social Faces of Humour

2019
The politics of laughter, puritanical and politically correct? a historical account of changes in the censorship of comedy by the BBC the status of verbal humour in British society - contextual aspects of English humour "Down with Skool!" - the perspective of youth in contemporary western humour humour at work and the work of humour laughing on the ...
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Coping with Stress: Social Work Students and Humour

Social Work Education, 2006
In social work, humour is being increasingly accepted as a strategy for coping with stress. The literature does not indicate whether humour is acquired on the job or is a characteristic of people entering the social work profession. This study examined sense of humour in 32 undergraduate social work students and its relationship with self‐ratings of ...
Carmen C. Moran, Lesley P. Hughes
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Humour and functions of proverbs in social interaction

Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2009
When people use a proverb or a proverb-like saying, it mostly represents an action to change the atmosphere of the situation going on. A social-psychological approach gives an apparatus to interpret different functions of proverbial speech and its relations to the use of humour in general.
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Merry Hell: Humour Competence and Social Incompetence

2005
Most of us like to think we have a good sense of humour, so much so, in fact, that in personal advertisements it is the most common characteristic people use to advertise themselves and request others to have. Attempts to understand such a central aspect of our self-identity date from at least Plato1 (c.350 BCE) and more recently humour has ...
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Humour et dérision : les fonctions sociales du rire

Revue des sciences sociales, 2010
Raphaël Freddy. Humour et dérision : les fonctions sociales du rire. In: Revue des sciences sociales, N°43, 2010. Humour et dérision. pp. 10-11.
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