They all laughed at Christopher Columbus.

ارزیابی روایی و پایایی مقیاس ترس از مسخره شدن در دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان در سال 1394

Background and Objective: People who have features of fear of being laughed at, always worried that others ridicule them or laugh at them. This misinterpretation of others laughter have a negative impact on their social interaction. Therefore, it is necessary to assess these variables for research and treatment purposes. The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the validity an...

Literary Nationalism and Ambivalence in Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Pertussis in Ohio: A descriptive analysis of the 2010 Columbus outbreak and patterns of a reemerging childhood disease

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Fear of being laughed at with relation to parent attachment in individuals with autism

The model of putative causes and consequences of gelotophobia (i.e., the fear of being laughed at) assumes that the fear of being laughed at develops as a consequence of (1) individuals’ having been laughed at over a long period of time and (2) failing interactions with parents. Past studies show that individuals with autism are subjected to being laughed at and that they tend to worry about be...

Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries

The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in di¤erent countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH 254 R. T. Proyer et al.