The Sense of Humor
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The Sense of Humor

Explorations of a Personality Characteristic

  1. 508 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Sense of Humor

Explorations of a Personality Characteristic

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Table of contents

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