The present research investigated the degree of similarity in humour styles between spouses as assessed with the Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). Furthermore, self-esteem was investigated as a potential moderator of partner humour style similarity. A sample of 116 heterosexual, married couples independently completed questionnaires assessing self-reported humour styles across the 32 item HSQ,...

Humour has been shown to improve elements of the educational experience, but only under certain circumstances. We use Cognitive Load Theory to explain that these circumstances occur when humour does not overload the student’s cognitive load. The problem-solving approach, typically used in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, already increases the cognitive load, and the a...

Humour is a valid subject for research in artiicial intelligence, as it is one of the more complex of human behaviours. Some have also argued that an understanding of humour could lead to more congenial human-computer interfaces, although this is more contentious. Although philosophers and others have discussed humour for centuries, it is only very recently that computational work has begun in ...

Research on the relationship between humour appreciation and needs was traditionally restricted to the investigation of the significance of humour content. The present study extends this scope by relating needs to appreciation of humour structure and to liking of humour in general. Instruments allowing a more comprehensive assessment of both needs and humour appreciation were administered to su...

This thesis investigates the interaction between gender and humour in sponta neous New Zealand English Tapes were collected of men and women in single sex and mixed groups and instances of humour were identi ed and transcribed The taping situation proved more comfortable for the female groups and the mixed groups than for the male groups Male groups tend to be more task based and so often treat...

AIM To explore how men with penile cancer construct humour in relation to their diagnosis and treatment. BACKGROUND Functionalist, relief and incongruity theories attempt to account for humour, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence in nursing care. This is particularly so in relation to a condition like penile cancer where some nurses think that humour in their interactions with patient...

The ways in which humour can be used are related to the manifold interpersonal functions humour can serve, some of which are positive, and some negative. In the present study, phasic changes in the functional coupling of prefrontal and posterior cortex (EEG coherence) during other people's auditory displays of happy and sad mood were recorded to predict people's typical use of humour in social ...

Freudian (1905 Wien; Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewu�ten. Deuticke) and Salience (Goldstein, Suls and Anthony, 1972; The Psychology of Humor. Academic Press, New York) theory make opposite predictions about the effects of attitudes to sex and sexual behaviour on appreciation of sex humour. Male and female students (N=115) answered a questionnaire of attitudes toward sex, a sexual behavi...

The present paper examines the hypothesis thar trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood form the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. American(N = 263)and German (N = 151) adults filled in the state-trait cheerfulness inventory and a sense of humour scale. Correlations between the two inventories showed that trait cheerfulness accounted for most of the variance-in the sense of humou...