The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative ApproachElsevier, 27 jul 2010 - 464 pagina's Research on humor is carried out in a number of areas in psychology, including the cognitive (What makes something funny?), developmental (when do we develop a sense of humor?), and social (how is humor used in social interactions?) Although there is enough interest in the area to have spawned several societies, the literature is dispersed in a number of primary journals, with little in the way of integration of the material into a book. Dr. Martin is one of the best known researchers in the area, and his research goes across subdisciplines in psychology to be of wide appeal. This is a singly authored monograph that provides in one source, a summary of information researchers might wish to know about research into the psychology of humor. The material is scholarly, but the presentation of the material is suitable for people unfamiliar with the subject-making The Psychology of Humor suitable for use for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on the psychology of humor-which have not had a textbook source. 2007 AATH Book Award for Humor/Laughter Research category!
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Inhoudsopgave
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5 The Social Psychology of Humor | 113 |
6 The Psychobiology of Humor and Laughter | 153 |
7 Personality Approaches to the Sense of Humor | 191 |
8 The Developmental Psychology of Humor | 229 |
9 Humor and Mental Health | 269 |
10 Humor and Physical Health | 309 |
11 Applications of Humor in Psychotherapy Education and the Workplace | 335 |
References | 373 |
Indices | 421 |
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Pagina 64 - The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.
Pagina 64 - Laughter arises from the view of two or more inconsistent, unsuitable, or incongruous parts or circumstances, considered as united in one complex object or assemblage, or as acquiring a sort of mutual relation from the peculiar manner in which the mind takes notice of them.
Pagina 45 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Pagina 36 - Like wit and the comic, humor has in it a liberating element. But it has also something fine and elevating, which is lacking in the other two ways of deriving pleasure from intellectual activity. Obviously, what is fine about it is the triumph of narcissism, the ego's victorious assertion of its own invulnerability.
Pagina 36 - Freud elevates humor to a noble, heroic status: [Humour] is fine . . . elevating . . . the triumph of narcissism, the ego's victorious assertion of its own invulnerability. It refuses to be hurt ... or to be compelled to suffer. It insists that it is impervious to wounds dealt by the outside world, in fact that these are merely occasions for affording it pleasure.
Pagina 78 - As above shown, laughter naturally results only when consciousness is unawares transferred from great things to small — only when there is what we may call a descending incongruity.
Pagina 86 - Mandler (1979, 263) said that "a schema is formed on the basis of past experience with objects, scenes, or events and consists of a set of (usually unconscious) expectations about what things look like and/or the order in which they occur. The parts or units of a schema consist of a set of variables, or slots, which can be filled or instantiated in any given instance by values that have greater or lesser degrees of probability of occurrence attached to them.
Pagina 194 - Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Pagina 66 - An English bishop received the following note from the vicar of a village in his diocese: "My Lord: I regret to inform you of the death of my wife. Can you possibly send me a substitute for the week-end?
Pagina 91 - A text can be characterized as a single-joke-carrying-text if both of the [following] conditions are satisfied: i) The text is compatible, fully or in part, with two different scripts ii) The two scripts with which the text is compatible are opposite...