The Social Psychology of Humor

Martin, Rod A.

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“…Humour has been shown to be important in facilitating interpersonal relationships and social interactions (Martin, 2006b). Impaired ability to recognize humour in schizophrenia may contribute to the difficulties in daily interpersonal interactions experienced by patients with schizophrenia.…”

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Humour experience in schizophrenia: relationship with executive dysfunction and psychosocial impairment

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“…Coping humor is defined as the propensity to use humor as a method for individuals to cope with stress or adversity in life (Martin and Lefcourt, 1983; Martin, 2007). Compared with other positive stress-coping strategies, like rational actions or self-adjustment, coping humor may help ease stress by improving individual mental happiness and personal charm and creating a friendly atmosphere (Martin, 2007).…”

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“…Compared with other positive stress-coping strategies, like rational actions or self-adjustment, coping humor may help ease stress by improving individual mental happiness and personal charm and creating a friendly atmosphere (Martin, 2007). Because humor as a coping mechanism involves making an effort to keep a humorous perspective in the face of adversity (Martin, 1996, 2007; Marziali et al, 2008; Merz et al, 2009), coping theory can be used to explain the connection between social culture, entrepreneurial experience, and entrepreneurs’ coping humor.…”

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“…Coping humor helps individuals to reassess stressful events in a positive way by seeking the bright side (Martin et al, 1993), which can solve the problem by changing the stress itself (Lefcourt et al, 1997). Therefore, coping humor is commonly used to deal with pressure (Martin, 2007, 2016; Merz et al, 2009; Demjén, 2016; Morse et al, 2018). …”

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“…In studies on humor, cultural and individual factors are also commonly mentioned as influential components of an individual’s use of coping humor (Martin, 2007; Yue et al, 2016). Some studies suggest that people living in specific cultures hold different attitudes toward humor (Yue et al, 2016), which may lead to encouragement or discouragement for using humor as a way to deal with pressure (Wu and Chan, 2013).…”

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Coping Humor of Entrepreneurs: Interaction Between Social Culture and Entrepreneurial Experience

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Han

2018

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It is feasible to deal with the high pressures in entrepreneurship using humor. This paper studies the effect of interaction between entrepreneurs’ perception of social culture and entrepreneurial experience (including experience with entrepreneurial failure and current company performance) on coping humor of entrepreneurs with a sample of 171 entrepreneurs from Bohai Rim in China. Regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurs would be more likely to adopt coping humor when they perceived supportive social culture to entrepreneurship and had experienced entrepreneurial failure or when they perceived supportive social culture to entrepreneurship and had good current business. This study contributes to the literature of the theory of humor, the culture of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial failure.

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Humor

DiDomenico¹

2015

The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication

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The study of humor is an interdisciplinary one, but as humor is essentially communicative, the field of interpersonal communication is uniquely suited to explore the many facets of humor as it relates to interaction. To facilitate a review of humor, it is useful to regard it as a process, beginning with the origination of humor (individual motivation); detecting a purpose in the communication (social function); and exploring the effects of a message as it relates to the individual, the audience, and their relationship (others’ impressions and individual and relationship outcomes). In addition to close relationships research, communication scholars have investigated humor use within workplace, healthcare, and classroom settings, and continue to identify the positive and negative effects of humorous communication in everyday life.

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The Social Psychology of Humor

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Humour experience in schizophrenia: relationship with executive dysfunction and psychosocial impairment

Humour experience in schizophrenia: relationship with executive dysfunction and psychosocial impairment

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