In the past three decades the medical world has begun to take more serious notice of the healing power of humor and the positive emotions associated with it. Humor and laughter are currently being employed by psychotherapists and other care givers as tools to promote and maintain health, as well as intervention and rehabilitation tools for a host of maladies and illnesses related to stress and ...

Multiple aspects of humor were evaluated in children between the ages of 10 and 14 and related to several areas of competence manifested at school. Humor measures assessed appreciation (including mirth, subjective ratings, and response sets), comprehension, and production, while competence measures included teacher ratings of classroom behavior, peer reputation, and achievement. Humor was relat...

Titze (Humor and Health Journal 5:1-11, 1996) concluded from individual case studies that gelotophobes do not experience humor and laughter as a shared enjoyment but rather as a threat. Two studies examined whether gelotophobes are less humorous in general or whether this is true only for certain components of humor. In study I, three samples (N = 120 and 70 students; N = 169 adults) filled in ...

Much has been written about humor and even sarcasm automatic recognition on Twitter. The task of classifying humorous tweets according to the type of humor has not been confronted so far, as far as we know. This research is aimed at applying classification and other NLP algorithms to the challenging task of automatically identifying the type and topic of humorous messages on Twitter. To achieve...

This study aimed to test how sense of humor is dependent on the complex and dynamic interactions between emotional (temperament) sociocognitive (character) components personality. Specifically, we examined relationship temperament and/or character profiles overall potential comic style. In total, 665 adults responded Cloninger’s Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) Comic Style Markers. were as...

The study was conducted in order to examine the correlation between humor styles of patients and their intensive care experiences. This descriptive correlational design. population consisted who were treated general surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, organ transplantation units a university hospital. Its sample 204 patients. data collected using Personal Information Form prepared by researchers,...