Gelotophobics have social deficits in the form of relative humorlessness and heightened sensitivity to aggressive humor; however, little is known about the neural reward mechanisms for this group. The present study attempted to identify the neural substrates of responses to hostile and non-hostile jokes in gelotophobics and non-gelotophobics. Gelotophobics showed greater activation than did non...

Jokes classification is an intrinsically subjective and complex task, mainly due to the difficulties related to cope with contextual constraints on classifying each joke. Nowadays people have less time to devote to search and enjoy humour and, as a consequence, people are usually interested on having a set of interesting filtered jokes that could be worth reading, that is with a high probabilit...

The purpose of this study was to develop a laboratory analogue for the study of peer sexual harassment, and to examine person and situational factors associated with male on female peer sexual harassment. One hundred twenty-two male participants were given the opportunity to tell jokes to a female confederate from a joke list that included sexually offensive jokes, as well as other types of jok...

Honors Thesis Collection 2015 The gender divide in humor: How people rate the competence, influence, and funniness of men and women by the jokes they tell and how they tell them Rozek, Christina, "The gender divide in humor: How people rate the competence, influence, and funniness of men and women by the jokes they tell and how they tell them" (2015). Honors Thesis Collection. Paper 296. The ge...

In this article I analyze online jokes that developed in response to the tainted milk powder scandal in China. Sanlu Dairy milk jokes were widespread on the Internet, especially on Chinese websites, from midSeptember to early November 2008. I explore why the jokes became popular during the tragedy. Within the context of Chinese culture, I examine the reasons for their emergence and the internal...

We describe the space structuring model, a model of language comprehension inspired by ideas in cognitive linguistics, focusing on its capacity to explain the sorts of inferences needed to understand one-line jokes. One process posited in the model is frame-shifting, the semantic and pragmatic reanalysis in which elements of the existing message-level representation are mapped into a new frame ...

Two studies tested the hypothesis that the right hemisphere engages in relatively coarse semantic coding that aids high-level language tasks such as joke comprehension. Scalprecorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were collected as healthy adults read probe words (CRAZY) preceded either by jokes or nonfunny controls ("Everyone had so much fun jumping into the swimming pool, we decided to...