Interviews with five occupational therapists who use humor therapeutically in their practice were conducted and analyzed with a phenomenological method so that the lived experience of therapeutic humor use in occupational therapy could be examined. Sixteen themes were identified through data analysis: The Concept of Therapeutic Use of Humor; Spontaneous Versus Deliberate Humor; Humor, the Great...

draw a story (das), by integrate story and drawing, attempt to enter to child's emotional world, and provided valuable information about the inner world of children's that they are not able to express them, due verbal and cognitive limitations. the aim of present study was to evaluate emotional content, self- image and use of humor in children of elementary school and investigate gend...

it study examined the relationship between humor on organizational culture and group cohesion using factor analysis deals. the population of this studies all technical and professional staff, kermanshah university has established who relative advantage of using random sampling of 181 individuals was selected morgan and using questionnaire data collected, amos and software tests. results indicat...

results students (n = 157; 97.5%) opined that humor if incorporated appropriately in classroom teaching is a good thing and also helps in better retention of the topic being taught (n = 141; 75.15%). majority of students (n = 158; 98.12%) responded that use of humor in classroom teaching facilitates a good teacher-student relationship. majority of students (n = 146; 90.67%) also felt that havin...

Are people who are funny more attractive? Or does being attractive lead people to be seen as funnier? The answer may depend on the underlying evolutionary function of humor. While humor has been proposed to signal “good genes,” we propose that humor also functions to indicate interest in social relationships – in initiating new relationships and in monitoring existing ones. Consistent with this...

The study reported in this article aims at empirically testing a theoretical model of collaborative knowledge building with wikis which was recently introduced by Cress and Kimmerle (2007; in press). This model assumes that individual learning and collaborative knowledge building are based on the interplay between people’s knowledge and the information available in the wiki. This interplay take...

Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Denise Scheermann for recruiting participants and conducting the measurements, as well as all the participants of this study for their motivation. Abstract Emotional speech comprises of complex multimodal verbal and non-verbal information that allows deducting others' emotional states or thoughts in social interactions. While the neural correlates of v...

Background: The prevalence of chronic pains in the elderly residing in nursing homes is high, which can bring about social isolation, depression, incidence of disabilities, as well as increased costs. Given the risks, medication therapy is not used for the elderly, and non-pharmaceutical methods, such as humor therapy as one of the complementary medicine techniques using thought distraction, ha...