Reactions to Humorous Comments and Implicit Theories of Humor Styles
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Reactions to Humorous Comments and Implicit Theories of Humor Styles
The first two studies investigated reactions to several different types of humorous comments. Participants indicated they would be significantly more likely to continue interacting with a friend who used adaptive self-enhancing or affiliative humor rather than maladaptive aggressive or self-defeating humor; with the most detrimental effects being evident for aggressive humor. Adaptive humorous ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europe’s Journal of Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1841-0413
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v6i3.215