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Titel
Handbook of Humor Research : Volume 1: Basic Issues
Ort / Verlag
New York, NY : Springer New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1983
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • 1 Felt Versus Feigned Funniness: Issues in Coding Smiling and Laughing -- 2 The Role of Arousal and Hemispheric Lateralization in Humor -- 3 Cognitive Processes in Humor Appreciation -- 4 Linguistics and Humor -- 5 Disparagement Humor -- 6 Humor Development: Toward a Life Span Approach -- 7 Humor and Laughter in Social Interaction and Some Implications for Humor Research -- 8 Sociological Approaches to the Study of Humor -- 9 Humor Research, Methodology, and Theory in Anthropology -- 10 Notes Toward a Field Theory of Humor -- Author Index
  • About a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book contained eleven original papers that represented the state of knowledge at that time. We confess that it was not easy to fill that volume with first-rate contributions. In a few instances we invited contributors only on the basis of having heard through the grapevine that they were doing interesting work on humor. Our sources proved reliable and we were pleased with the results. We even made new friends as a result of these blind invitations. But the fact remains that in the early 1970s there was only a handful of social scientists studying humor and laughter. The history of humor research prior to the 1970s can also be characterized in terms of the short-term commitment to investigating humor among those who did venture out and try their hand at designing humor studies. For reasons that remain unclear, many investigators published only one or two humor studies before abandoning the area in favor of some other research domain. We have the impression that for decades social scientists have been very intrigued by the idea of studying humor. Psychologists have suspected for a long time that humor somehow is very important in the lives of people. We find laughter and humor occurring almost wherever we find people engaged in social interaction
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9781461255727
Titel-ID: 990020139940106463