“I did not actually hear George Washington say that”
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThe 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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Academic research on student engagement - lost formulae to inspiring students [PDF]
, 2010 Academic tutors take on a multitude of roles in their current positions at university and while teaching is expected, from most, it is often assumed that the tutor will apply appropriate pedagogical tools to convey knowledge to the students. This view is
Dean, AA
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Fashion and passion: marketing sex to women [PDF]
, 2005 Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers.
Addley, Esther +18 more
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Dark Humour: The Associations Between Humour Style, Psychopathic Traits, and Empathy
Carleton Undergraduate Journal of ScienceThis study investigates the relationship between styles of humour, facets of psychopathy, and three facets of empathy, aiming to discern whether these variables are interrelated and how. A sample of 884 undergraduate students completed a series of questionnaires online and results were analyzed via structural equation modelling and correlations.
Ruby MacMillan +2 more
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A Study of Patterns of Participation of Arnhem Land Aboriginal Students in non-Aboriginal Urban Secondary School [PDF]
, 1996 Aboriginal students are identified as one of the groups most at risk in Australia today. They have low levels of achievement and school retention coupled with high levels of failure, absenteeism and behaviour problems.
Ashton-Hay, Sally
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The Influence of Culture on Attitudes Towards Humorous Advertising [PDF]
, 2019 open access ...
Liu, Jia +4 more
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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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The use of humor by an adolescent with autism spectrum disorder [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this study was to describe the humor use by an 11-year-old adolescent with ASD. Through an iterative coding process to identify a successful, unsuccessful, and neutral rating of instances of humor, we describe how does an adolescent with ASD ...
Peters, Kaitlin J.
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Academic Expectation Stress, Psychological Capital, Humour Style and Student Wellbeing
International Journal of Education (IJE), 2020 A well established and accepted inevitability has emerged that students are vulnerable to stress throughout their academic journey, negatively influencing their psychological wellbeing. The current study explored the relationship between academic expectation stress and psychological wellbeing in 212 undergraduate students (44 males and 168 females) age
Nicole Johnston, Tony Cassidy
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Towards a typology of humorous wartime tweets
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 The idea of this research was born on 26 May 2022. The following day, we saw Elon Musk’s tweet from 26 May 2022: ‘Politics is a sadness generator’. We accepted the challenge to refute the statement and to prove that there is much space for humour in the ...
Olesia Yehorova +2 more
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