Humor use in power-differentiated interactions

Dunbar, Norah E.; Banas, John A.; Rodriguez, Dariela; Liu, Shr-Jie; Abra, Gordon

doi:10.1515/humor-2012-0025

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“…Hay (2000) and Dunbar et al (2012) also found that a sharing type of humor (exchanged while sharing personal experiences or self-revealing stories) serves to create solidarity and is much more common among women than among men. Crawford and Gressley (1991) and Crawford (2003) also showed that the preferred type of humor among women is sharing funny, mundane, personal experiences from everyday life in order to create a "shared understanding of life's absurdities" (Crawford 2003(Crawford : 1421, while men's humor functions as a form of status competition.…”

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On sarcasm, social awareness, and gender

Drucker

Fein

Bergerbest

et al. 2014

Humor

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Sarcastic irony, uttered in four (within and between) gender-based settings, is used here as a tool to diagnose affective attitudes toward women. The kind of sarcasm tested here is an aggressive type of humor, whereby a speaker derides another individual, turning her or him into the victim of the humorous utterance. Finding this kind of irony less or more pleasing allows indexing between-and within-group attitudes. Participants were overall nonsexist, scoring low on sexism scales, but male participants were still more sexist than female participants. Results show that, as predicted by Ariel and Giora (1998), female participants fully adopted a feminine point of view, enjoying sarcastic irony best when it was directed by women at men and least when it was directed by women at women. Being more sexist, our male participants adopted a feminine point of view only partially, enjoying sarcastic irony more when directed at men than directed at women, regardless of the speaker's gender.

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On sarcasm, social awareness, and gender

Drucker

Fein

Bergerbest

et al. 2014

Humor

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“…Humour is commonly defined as the communication of multiple, incongruous meanings that are amusing in some manner (Dunbar, Banas, Rodrigues, Liu, & Abra, 2012;Martin, 2007). Humour theories can be classified into three groups: incongruity, superiority and relief theories.…”

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Humor supporting preschoolers in designing and making crafts

Rönkkö

Aerila

2018

FormAkademisk

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This study aims to examine how designing and making humorous craft products can be connected to storytelling. The study involved 17 preschoolers who were tasked to design a soft toy that would make others laugh. The brainstorming was supported by collaborative and individual activities (e.g., discussions and sketching). The preschoolers told humorous stories inspired by the craft process. Humor and different activities form an inspiring starting point for the design process. Craft making with humor motivates children, gives them story ideas, and makes learning more holistic. Storytelling makes children’s thoughts on their soft toys visible. Girls’ and boys’ views differ on what makes others laugh. Girls prefer to laugh together, whereas boys’ humor is aggressive, unconventional, and may be based on embarrassing others or laughing at others’ expense. Girls emphasize the significance of cheering up others; thus, they are more product oriented than boys.

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“…In the future, longitudinal studies need to be conducted with existing long-term groups to capture the interplay between put-down humor and cohesion over time. Additional studies should also examine how group processes and the production of humor are associated (Dunbar et al 2012) and how the effects of humor play out in a work context (Van den Broeck et al 2012). Such studies can also help in formulating a richer theory about the effects of put-down and other forms of humor in groups.…”

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Put-Down Humor Directed at Outgroup Members Increases Perceived – but Not Experienced – Cohesion in Groups

Gockel¹,

Kerr

2015

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Put-down humor always has a target, and the intent of the speaker is to make fun of someone or something. Due to its inherently social nature, put-down humor could strongly affect socio-emotional group processes and outcomes like cohesion. We hypothesized that put-down humor would increase cohesion when it was targeted at outgroup members and was followed by laughter. Two laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the underlying processes of the put-down humor -cohesion relation. Study 1 showed that put-down humor of outgroup members (as compared to no humor) did not increase participants' attraction to the group. But it increased perceived cohesion among other group members and the perception that other group members felt safer and were more similar to each other. Even when procedures were altered in Study 2 to reduce participants' evaluation apprehension and their potential anxiety about not themselves being humorous, we found the same pattern of results. We discuss which conditions might be necessary for put-down humor to increase one's personal attraction to a group.

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Humor use in power-differentiated interactions

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 publications

On sarcasm, social awareness, and gender

On sarcasm, social awareness, and gender

Humor supporting preschoolers in designing and making crafts

Put-Down Humor Directed at Outgroup Members Increases Perceived – but Not Experienced – Cohesion in Groups

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