The use of humor in the classroom describes a various group of techniques at all levels of education. These techniques range from self-deprecating humor to the use of Jon Stewart’s satirical American Politics textbook. Instructors at all levels of education can and do use humor in the classroom but most of the literature focuses on high school and university learning with little discussion of j...

PURPOSE Many studies include elevated activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in serum in sarcoidosis and in ocular sarcoidosis as well, but there are only a few analyzing ACE activities in aqueous humor. The aim of this study is to illuminate the diagnostic value of ACE in aqueous humor in patients with ocular sarcoidosis. METHODS We analyzed twenty patients with ocular sarcoidosis a...

Verbo-pictorial humor advertisement induces deeper thinking and invokes the feeling of amusement. Present study aimed to investigate the influence of types of verbo-pictorial ads and humor by the analysis of eye movement. Participants were 67 undergraduates, experimental design was 2 (advertisement type: humor and literality) [U+F0CD] 2 (stimulus type: slogan and pictorial information) within-s...

Irony is often related to humor, both in spoken and written language. One possibility is that humor arises once people reconcile the incongruity between what speakers say and imply when using irony. Humor automatically emerges in these cases given the release of tension following a momentary sense of disparity. Our claim is that this proposal does not capture many of the dynamic complexities in...

The connection between humor and aesthetic experience has already been recognized by several thinkers and aesthetic educators. This essay extends the research of John Morreall and others who have examined the various connections between humor and aesthetics by focusing on the distinction between aesthetic and non-aesthetic humor. The author begins his analysis by describing the nature and purpo...

Human ability to communicate is incomplete without the use of humor. If a computational system is ever to approximate human communication ability or act as a competent partner in a conversation with a human, humor must be accounted for: it must be detected and dealt with appropriately, and it must be generated at need. Computing is becoming ubiquitous, with more and more systems entering the li...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Although case managers must project professionalism, a dash of healing humor can accomplish a lot of trust in a little space of time. To show how case managers can incorporate humor into case management (CM), the article explores beneficial humor-based interventions and sources of unhealthy humor. Suspending the garment of good humor are 2 main straps: (1) increasing the theo...

This talk will analyze responses to funniness of five versions of 10 different jokes. The responses of one of them will then be compared to theoretical analysis and representation of the same joke based on Script-based Semantics Theory of Humor, General Theory of Verbal Humor, and Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor.

Unspecified DOI: 10.1515/humr.1993.6.1.1 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-77507 Published Version Originally published at: Ruch, Willibald (1993). Introduction: Current issues in psychological humor research. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 6(1):1-7. DOI: 10.1515/humr.1993.6.1.

A solitary report in the literature suggests that determination of phosphohexose isomerase (PHI; glucosephosphate isomerase, EC 5.3.1.9) activity in aqueous humor and serum may be a useful adjunct in the diagnosis f retinoblastoma (1). The aqueous humor/serum PHI ratio of 20 patients with retinoblastoma was compared with that for eight “controls” having intraocular diseases other than retinobla...