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Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Foreword and overview Sense of humor: A new look at an old concept
- Approaches to the sense of humor: A historical review
- Part II Current conceptual approaches
- Humor and personality in everyday life
- The sense of humor and the truth
- A two-mode model of humor appreciation: Its relation to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality
- “Sense” of humor: Perception, intelligence, or expertise?
- Is sense of humor a positive personality characteristic?
- Humor and stress revisited
- A temperament approach to humor
- Part III Differences among groups
- Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the 20th century
- The ill side of humor: Pathological conditions and sense of humor
- The dog that didn't bark in the night: A new sociological approach to the cross-cultural study of humor
- Part IV Intra-individual differences
- Influence of mood on humor
- Development of the sense of humor
- Part V Causes of inter- and intra-individual differences
- Genetic and environmental contributions to children's interpersonal humor
- The development and evaluation of a systematic program for improving sense of humor
- Appendix: Humor measurement tools
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index
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