The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor.
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The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor
The recent emergence of positive psychology gave rise to the idea to conceptualize humor from a “good character” perspective. Present constructs, however, show a “virtue gap,” and the two concepts of benevolent and corrective humor were developed to fill this gap. The former describes a humorous outlook on life that entails the realistic observations and understanding of human weaknesses (and t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Translational Issues in Psychological Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2332-2179,2332-2136
DOI: 10.1037/tps0000063