Individuals infer men's formidability through various facial and bodily features. Such inferences covary with perceptions of personalities motivational states, potentially informing subsequent affiliative decisions. Within these could be an implicit understanding preferred humor styles. Across four studies, this research considered proclivity to employ styles different cues: upper body strength...

Much has been written about humor and even sarcasm automatic recognition on Twitter. The task of classifying humorous tweets according to the type of humor has not been confronted so far, as far as we know. This research is aimed at applying classification and other NLP algorithms to the challenging task of automatically identifying the type and topic of humorous messages on Twitter. To achieve...

BACKGROUND The aim of the paper is to present the Polish adaptation of the Humor Climate Questionnaire (HCQ), designed to measure humor as organizational climate feature. MATERIAL AND METHODS The authors employed back-translation and independent judges method to choose the best version of the translated items. The psychometric properties of HCQ were estimated on the basis of 2 samples: the ba...

Although humor is a universal feature of human communication, people vary widely in how they create and use humor. Guided by broader model creative self-beliefs, we developed the Humor Efficacy Identity Short Scales (HEISS), pair 4-item scales measuring self-efficacy (“I can” beliefs reflecting confidence about one's ability to be funny) identity am” centrality self-concept). Using large sample...