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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
Mistry, K., Johnson, A.J.
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The experience of humour in Asperger’s syndrome [PDF]
, 2010 A Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Counselling Psychology.This study investigated the experience of humour of people with Asperger’s syndrome.
Ruggeri, Susan
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Humour as social dreaming:Stand-up comedy as therapeutic performance [PDF]
, 2012 Stand-up comedy binds dramatic cultural spectacle to ritualised, intimate exposure. Examining ‘case’ examples from live comic performance, this paper describes stand-up as a kind of social dreaming.
MacRury, Iain
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Humour to learn Mathematics: mathematical tasks to laugh and learn [PDF]
, 2021 Good mood and wellbeing make work and learning much easier. And this is what humour is really all about, to make people feel well and to make them laugh. Humour will minimise stressful situations and facilitate communication. Among the different forms of
Viseu, Floriano +6 more
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Editorial for special issue on education and humour: Education and humour as tools for social awareness and critical consciousness in contemporary classrooms [PDF]
, 2015 It is not new to consider the instructive power of humour. Both Plato and Aristotle, through their superiority theories, saw the benefit of wit as a social corrective, although they remained suspicious of the uneducated laughter of the masses (Plato in ...
Mora, RA, Weaver, S, Lindo, LM
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Humour and belonging: a thematic review [PDF]
, 2022 Serving as introduction to this Special Issue, this article presents a thematic review of topics involved in studies on humour and belonging. It briefly elaborates on the intricacies of concepts such as humour, sense of humour and belonging and their ...
Jessica Milner Davis +3 more
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, 2020 This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to “humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, i.e. by reliance on terms and categories which are English-specific, such as ‘amusing’, ‘joking’
Goddard, Cliff
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Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five‐Year Longitudinal Study
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract This study examined sojourners' long‐term personality trait changes over five years, extending previous research on immediate sojourn effects. A sample of German students (N = 1095) was surveyed thrice (T1–T3) over the course of an academic year.
Julia Richter +4 more
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Humour in the classroom: Teachers’ perceptions [PDF]
, 2014 The key questions of this study are whether Greek primary school teachers acknowledge the benefits and risks of involving humour in the classroom, how important they consider it, and to what extent and in which way they incorporate it into their teaching.
Chaniotakis, Nikos
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci +4 more
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