Humor, coping with stress, self-concept, and psychological well-being

Martin, Rod A.; Kuiper, Nicholas A.; Olinger, L. Joan; Dance, Kathryn A.

doi:10.1515/humr.1993.6.1.89

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“…Research involving additional measurements of sense of humor, including self-report instruments, peer ratings, and comedy monologues, suggests that humor moderates the impact of stressful life events on mood disturbances such as depression and anxiety, salivary immunoglobulin, and positive affect [12][13][14]. Similar moderating effects of humor have also been identified for depression, insomnia, loneliness, and self-esteem, although not for anxiety [15][16][17][18].…”

Section: Physiology Of Laughter and Humormentioning

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Update: Laughter: The Best Medicine?

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Learning ObjectivesAfter completing this course, the reader will be able to:1. Appreciate the impact of humor in the interaction between patients and caregivers.2. Understand the literature and evidence base for the positive and negative roles of humor in oncology. PresentationTwo speakers presented their views on the use of humor in the medical setting and discussed its use when communicating with patients and between health care providers.They highlighted both the positive and negative aspects of a variety of humorous interactions. Staff and patients' personal and clinical details have been changed to protect their anonymity.Access and take the CME test online and receive 1 hour of AMA PRA category 1 credit at CME.TheOncologist.com CME CME This material is protected by U.S.

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“…Humor has often been conceptualized as a form of coping [21][22][23][24] in that it involves a multidimensional, transactional process concerning how people handle stress [25][26][27]. One of the few adolescent-specific coping models with empirical support is the two-tiered model of approach versus avoidance coping [25,26,28,29].…”

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Adolescent Humor and its Relationship to Coping, Defense Strategies, Psychological Distress, and Well-Being

Erickson

Feldstein

2006

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…All of us possess a "sense of humor" (admittedly, some more than others), which we use to help us cope with stressful situations, to induce socially lubricating positive emotions, and to defuse tense situations (see, e.g., Dienstbier, 1995;Martin, Kuiper, Olinger, & Dance, 1993). Humor also plays an important role in social bonding; we like others who are humorous and find them more attractive and appealing (Wanzer, Booth-Butterfield, & Booth-Butterfield, 1996).…”

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The reward of a good joke: neural correlates of viewing dynamic displays of stand-up comedy

Franklin

Adams

2011

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Humor is enjoyable, yet few studies to date have reported that humor engages brain regions involved in reward processing (i.e., the mesolimbic reward system). Even fewer have investigated socially relevant, dynamic displays of real actors telling jokes. Instead, many studies have focused on responses to static cartoons or written jokes in isolation. In the present investigation, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain activation in response to video clips of comedians performing stand-up comedy, a more socially relevant task than reading jokes or cartoons in isolation. Participants watched video clips of eight stand-up comedians, half female/half male, that were prerated by a separate group of participants from the same population as eliciting either high or low levels of amusement, thereby allowing us to control for comedian attributes and comedic style. We found that high-funny clips elicited more activation in several brain regions involved with reward responses, including the nucleus accumbens, caudate, and putamen. A regression with participants' own ratings of humor revealed similar activity in reward areas as well as in regions involved in theory of mind. These findings indicate that dynamic social displays of humor do engage reward responses. The rewarding nature of humor may help explain why it is so valued socially.

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Humor, coping with stress, self-concept, and psychological well-being

Cited by 230 publications

References 5 publications

Update: Laughter: The Best Medicine?

Update: Laughter: The Best Medicine?

Adolescent Humor and its Relationship to Coping, Defense Strategies, Psychological Distress, and Well-Being

The reward of a good joke: neural correlates of viewing dynamic displays of stand-up comedy

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