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Psychometric evaluation of the revised Sense of Humor Scale and the construction of a parallel form [PDF]
Humor, 2018 McGhee (1996, Health, healing and the amuse system: Humor as survival training. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt; 1999, Health, healing and the amuse system: Humor as survival training (3rd edition).
Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz
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Contact With Nature, Sense of Humor, and Psychological Well-Being
Environment and Behavior, 2008 We administered a questionnaire measuring contact with nature, sense of humor, and psychological well-being. Factor analysis of the humor items yielded four factors: humor production, humor appreciation, coping humor, and humor tolerance. Factor analysis
Thomas R Herzog
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
To do the exacting work of medicine devoid of a sense of humor adds immeasurably to the effort. Humor often saves the day when dealing with man's foibles, with his genius and idiocies, his joys and sorrows, pleasure and pains, loves and hates, generosities and meannesses, grace and clumsiness, gentility and crudeness, in short, with his inconsistencies.
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To do the exacting work of medicine devoid of a sense of humor adds immeasurably to the effort. Humor often saves the day when dealing with man's foibles, with his genius and idiocies, his joys and sorrows, pleasure and pains, loves and hates, generosities and meannesses, grace and clumsiness, gentility and crudeness, in short, with his inconsistencies.
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Effects of Humorous Stimuli and Sense of Humor on Discomfort
Psychological Reports, 1991The effects of humor on increasing discomfort thresholds were tested with Transcutaneous End Nerve Stimulation (TENS). Undergraduate students ( n = 31) with high or low scores on Martin and Lefcourt's Situational Humor Questionnaire were randomly assigned to a humor or nonhumor condition.
D A, Hudak +3 more
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Psychological Reports, 1975
In a study on cognitive and personality structure and sense of humor, Rouff (1973) investigated the relationship between creativity and humor comprehension, among other variables. Creativity was defined in terms of a linking together of disparate cognitive elements (Mednick, 1962; Mednick & Mednick, 1967).
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In a study on cognitive and personality structure and sense of humor, Rouff (1973) investigated the relationship between creativity and humor comprehension, among other variables. Creativity was defined in terms of a linking together of disparate cognitive elements (Mednick, 1962; Mednick & Mednick, 1967).
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Psychological health and sense of humor
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1997Scores on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS) are shown to be related positively to a number of factors associated with psychological health, such as optimism and self esteem, and negatively with signs of psychological distress such as depression. Humor is a multidimensional construct that seems to be intimately related to quality of life.
J A, Thorson +3 more
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Characterizing the Internet's Sense of Humor
2012 International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing, 2012In this paper, we report some results from the first internet content-based investigation of the underlying causes of humor. For this purpose, we developed a methodology for extracting semantic distance from tags associated with YouTube videos manually identified as humorous or not by their existing community of users.
Amogh Mahapatra +2 more
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Sense of humor and dimensions of personality
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1993Previous researchers have demonstrated relationships between sense of humor and personality. Most have viewed sense of humor from the perspective of humor appreciation. Others have taken the approach that sense of humor has two factors: appreciation and creativity.
J A, Thorson, F C, Powell
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Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1985
Each major behavior science has a variety of distinct perspectives on our species' capacity for humor. Some psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches are explained in this article. No theory accounting for or method of studying humor has gained a plurality of adherents in any of these disciplines.
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Each major behavior science has a variety of distinct perspectives on our species' capacity for humor. Some psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches are explained in this article. No theory accounting for or method of studying humor has gained a plurality of adherents in any of these disciplines.
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Revised questionnaire on the sense of humor
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1974Abstract.— A Sense‐of‐Humor Questionnaire (SHQ), based on the proposed 3–dimensional theory of sense of humor, was given to male and female students in social and physical sciences to test its construct validity. There were positive and significant correlations between the laughter‐activating dimension (Mp) and each of the two laughter‐inhibiting ...
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