Motivation in Humor

ISBN-13: 9780202308722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 190 str.

Jacob Levine

Opis

This is not a funny book-but it is the fi rst to bring together contemporary experimental studies on humor. The fourteen scholarly papers included here mark an important breakthrough in this vital, complex, and largely unexplored subject.Motivation in Humor shows that humor is researchable by scientifi c methods and indicates the diffi culties involved in such work. Here are samples of the important parameters of behavior and attempts at defi ning the factors that infl uence the humor response as well as the effects of this response upon subsequent emotional states.

Spis treści

Approaches to Humor Appreciation; I: Personality Dispositions in Humor Preferences; 1: Humor and Anxiety; 2: Humor as a Disturbing Stimulus; 3: The Relation of Drive Discharge to the Enjoyment of Humor; 4: Some Psychological Correlates of Humor Preferences; 5: Aggression, Need for Social Approval, and Humor Preferences; 6: Repression and Insight as Related to Reaction to Cartoons; II: The Effects of Experimental Arousal on Humor Responses; 7: The Effect of Motivation Arousal on Humor Preferences; 8: The Angered: Their Susceptibility to Varieties of Humor; 9: Aggression Arousal, Hostile Humor, Catharsis; 10: Mobilization of Inhibitions and the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor; III: Cognition and Humor; 11: Cognitive Challenge as a Factor in Children’s Humor Appreciation; 12: Distraction as a Factor in the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor; IV: Social Aspects of Humor; 13: The Position of Humor in Human Communication; 14: Regression in Primitive Clowning

O autorze

Jacob Levine