Cartooning Humor: How Arabs are Laughably Derided in Animations

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Sense of humor and social desirability: Understanding how humor styles are perceived

Humor can be expressed in many ways, some of which may not be seen as displaying a good sense of humor or as being socially desirable. Using the Humor Styles Questionnaire to predict global ratings of sense of humor for oneself and for a romantic partner indicated that only adaptive humor styles were reliably related to sense of humor and that an affiliative style was the primary predictor. Beh...

How Humor Works

How do animations influence learning?

One of the key innovations that educational technology has made available is new forms of representations, such as animation, multimedia, and virtual reality. Each new representation is initially greeted with enthusiasm and then, as research on how it impacts the processes and outcomes of learning produces mixed results, this enthusiasm wanes. In this chapter, I want to argue that to truly unde...

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