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The Power of Laughter: Emotional and Ideological Gratification in Media

Societies
This study examines the role of laughter in media content, focusing on traditional non-humorous entertainment talk shows with hosts, guests and a studio audience.
Abilio Almeida, Helena Sousa
doaj   +1 more source

The Leitmotif of Laughter in Sergei Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges

Современные проблемы музыкознания, 2022
Along with the musical leitmotifs, Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges has important literary leitmotifs. This can be explained by the following.
Nailya V. Nasibulina
doaj   +1 more source

Gelotophobia and the challenges of implementing laughter into virtual agents interactions [PDF]

, 2014
This study investigated which features of AVATAR laughter are perceived threatening for individuals with a fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia), and individuals with no gelotophobia.
Adobbati, American Psychiatric Association, Bryant, Carretero-Dios, Chapman, Connor, Edwards, Ekman, Forabosco, Glenn, Grenci, Hofmann, Holt, Ivanova, Jennifer Hofmann, Jérôme Urbain, Kipper, Kipper, Maurizio Mancini, Niewiadomski, Niewiadomski, Niewiadomski, Niewiadomski, Ochs, Oura, Platt, Platt, Platt, Platt, Platt, Qu, RadosÅ‚aw Niewiadomski, Rapee, Rinck, Rinn, Ruch, Ruch, Ruch, Ruch, Ruch, Ruch, Saragih, Schug, Stéphane Dupont, Titze, Tracey Platt, Urbain, Urbain, Vrijsen, Wallbott, Weiss, Willibald F. Ruch, Zaíane   +52 more
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‘Literal torture’: Vulnerability, resilience and young people's experiences of pressure in physical education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper combines vulnerability and resilience theory to explore the pressure young people experience in Physical Education (PE) and sport at secondary school. The theoretical framework was used to understand both how young people experience PE in school and how vulnerability and resilience function interdependently in social contexts like ...
David Littlefair, Michael Jopling
wiley   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

Vernon Briggs: Real-World Labor Economist [PDF]

, 2009
[Excerpt] Vernon Briggs stepped into a wastebasket and launched my career as a labor economist. In the spring of 1969, I was sleepwalking through the undergraduate economics program at the University of Texas and sitting in Dr.
Curington, William P
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

When do we laugh? [PDF]

, 2016
International audienceStudies on laughter in dialogue have proposed resolving what laughter is about by looking at what laughter follows or is adjacent to, even though this assumption has not been tested.
Ginzburg, Jonathan, Mazzocchoni, Chiara, Tian, Ye   +2 more
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Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
wiley   +1 more source

Ephemeral: An Original Play [PDF]

, 2016
Interesting conversations are had when an American woman spends a weekend with her Czech penpal and his relatives at his recently deceased mother\u27s cottage.
DeVoe, Kierstan N.
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