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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 art of verbal humour: A pragmatic analysis of Superbad
This study uses a qualitative method to analyse verbal humour in the film Superbad,focusing on the comedic effect derived from humorous utterances. Twenty scenes weremanually transcribed and analysed to facilitate a thorough examination of the verbalhumour in the scenes.
Dorsch, Zebastian
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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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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Hearing Impairment, Sense of Humour and Communication Strategies
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007 One purpose of this study was to describe sense of humour and communication strategies in a general population of adults who needed hearing aid (HA) fitting or refitting.
Anne-Sofie Helvik +3 more
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Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review
Neurologijos seminarai, 2023 Background. Although investigations of the use of humour in the management of people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) are not numerous, some significant findings have created the need to go deeper into the topic. Main research question.
M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis
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Humour styles as moderators and mediators of the relationship between peer-victimisation and internalising [PDF]
, 2012 Peer-victimisation is associated with numerous, negative psycho-social outcomes and meta-analyses indicate that internalising difficulties are particularly salient.
Jones, Sian +2 more
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VERBAL HUMOUR CREATED BY NON-OBSERVANCE OF COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN MIRANDA [PDF]
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021 Humour is one of essential aspects to communicate with other people comfortably. Most of verbal humours, especially implicit humours generate because people break Grice’s four conversational maxims. Concerning this phenomenon, this research aims to find out types of non-observance of cooperative principle found in verbal humour, which uttered by the ...
Bara Yamalita +2 more
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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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The processing of humour by individuals suffering from schizophrenia
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2016 Humour is an important component of social cognition. The last few years of cognitive research of schizophrenia provided a considerable amount of empirical evidence about social cognitive impairments in this serious neurodevelopmental disorder.
Eszter Varga +6 more
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