Humor appreciation and sensation seeking: Invariance of findings across culture and assessment instrument?

Carretero‐Dios, Hugo; Ruch, Willibald

doi:10.1515/humr.2010.020

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“…This was found for both types of media: jokes and TV advertisements. Yet, we could not replicate the positive correlations found between the funniness of NON and sensation seeking in neither medium (see Ruch 1992;Carretero-Dios & Ruch 2010). Thus, while we find the same pattern of correlations in jokes as well as in TV advertisements, we did not replicate the finding on NON in neither type of stimuli.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…In line with former findings, sensation seeking related negatively to the funniness of INC-RES humour (in the 3WD, as well as TV advertisements). Yet, the positive correlations between the funniness of NON and sensation seeking (see Ruch 1992;Carretero-Dios & Ruch 2010) could neither be replicated in the 3WD, nor in the TV advertisements in the current sample.…”

Section: Personality Correlates Of Humour Appreciationmentioning

confidence: 56%

“…Existing results on the relationship of the sensation seeking components and the 3WD dimensions show that across samples, ES and NS were predictive of low appreciation of INC-RES and more funniness of NON. DIS was positively correlated with funniness of SEX stimuli and negatively with aversiveness towards this content category (see Carretero-Dios & Ruch 2010;Ruch 1988;Ruch & Malcherek 2009).…”

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Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?

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“…The aim of the present study is two-fold. First, we aim to replicate previously reported findings (Carretero-Dios & Ruch, 2010;Ruch & Hehl, 1998), using a different measure for humor structure appreciation (Humor Structure Appreciation Scale; Sulejmanov, Spasovski, & Platt, 2017), and Macedonian sample. Here, we focus on the relation between sensation seeking (as conceptualized by Arnett, 1994) and complex-abstract art with humor structure appreciation.…”

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“…The role of sensation seeking in predicting appreciation of both humor structure and content has been thoroughly investigated (Carretero-Dios & Ruch, 2010;Forabosco & Ruch 1994;Ruch, 1988;Ruch & Malcherek, 2009). Carretero-Dios and Ruch (2010) used two different measures of sensation seeking -Sensation Seeking Scale (Zuckerman, 1979(Zuckerman, , 1994, and Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (Arnett, 1994), and two different measures of humor appreciation -3-WD humor test (Ruch, 1992), and the EAHU humor test for examining the association between the constructs.…”

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The relation of humor structure appreciation with sensation seeking and judgments of complex-abstract art and sophisticated music

Sulejmanov

2018

Psihologija

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The aim of the present study is twofold. Firstly, the relation between sensation seeking and humor structure appreciation has been investigated (Carretero-Dios & Ruch, 2010), and also the association between humor structure appreciation and complex-abstract art has been reported (Ruch & Hehl, 1998). In that sense, this study aims to replicate previously reported findings. Second, the association between humor structure appreciation and sophisticated music (Rentfrow, Goldberg, & Levitin, 2011) was explored. Results obtained from 77 participants partially supported the predictions. Sensation seeking was negatively related with the aversiveness ratings of Nonsense humor, while pleasantness of complex-abstract art was negatively associated with funniness of Incongruity-Resolution humor and positively with the structure preference index. Aversiveness of Incongruity-Resolution humor correlated negatively with sophisticated music ratings. Finally, ratings on the abstract-art paintings and sophisticated musical excerpts were positively associated. Implications of the findings, limitations of this study and avenues for further research are examined.

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Associations between personality and humor structure appreciation

Sulejmanov¹,

Dostál²,

Grundman³

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Curr Psychol

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The current study investigates the associations between personality and humor structure appreciation. A total of 509 participants completed the Big Five Inventory–2 and the Humor Structure Appreciation Scale. The results showed that, as expected, open-mindedness was associated with a preference for nonsense (NON) over incongruity-resolution (INC-RES) humor, and it was negatively related to the aversiveness scores of NON humor. On the other hand, conscientiousness correlated with a preference for INC-RES over NON humor, and the facet of organization accounted primarily for this relationship. Focusing on the facets of open-mindedness, we found that aesthetic sensitivity and intellectual curiosity were related to preferring jokes with residual incongruities (NON humor) over jokes with a full resolution (INC-RES humor). Finally, we confirmed that extraverted individuals enjoyed humor more of all types, whereas negative emotionality related to generally finding both types of humor as not funny, but there was no significant association between negative emotionality and the total aversiveness score. The results are discussed in relation to previous theoretical accounts and empirical findings, and future avenues for further research are considered.

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Humor appreciation and sensation seeking: Invariance of findings across culture and assessment instrument?

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Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?

Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?

The relation of humor structure appreciation with sensation seeking and judgments of complex-abstract art and sophisticated music

Associations between personality and humor structure appreciation

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