Smiling, laughing, and humor is something that individuals come across everyday. People watch humorous videos, listen to comedians, and read the comics in the newspaper. However, is humor only beneficial in causing us to laugh, or can it be used for more? Can humor be used in a more structured form and reap more complex benefits than producing a smile or laugh? Researchers and therapists have b...

Research has shown that a factor in a victim's forgiveness of an offender is the victim's ability to make more positive, or at least less negative, attributions of the offender's behavior and that perspective-taking can be a factor in facilitating that process. Self-enhancing humor has been found to be positively correlated with perspective-taking empathy and aggressive humor found to be negati...

Since the start of the 21st century, the investigation of various psychological aspects of humor and laughter has become an increasingly prominent topic of research. This growth can be attributed, in no small part, to the pioneering and creative work on humor and laughter conducted by Professor Rod Martin. Dr. Martin's research interests in humor and laughter began in the early 1980s and contin...

The present study examines the role of sensation seeking, conservatism, toughmindedness, sex, and age in appreciation of humor in Italian adults. A sample of 100 females and 48 males responded to Italian adaptations of the 3 WD humor test, Form V of the sensation seeking scale, and the C-Scale. Funniness of incongruity-resolution humor correlated positively with conservatism, female sex, and ag...

purpose: to investigate aqueous humor nitric oxide (no) levels in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo) and central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) and to compare these with age-matched controls. methods: eight consecutive patients with brvo and 16 patients with crvo were included in this study. aqueous humor specimens were obtained within 21 days of diagnosis. samples of aqueous hum...

The present study examined the relationships between four personality traits, humor styles, and happiness. Replicating previous research, happiness was positively correlated with four personality traits: extraversion, locus of control, self-esteem, and optimism. Further, happiness positively related to self-enhancing and affiliative humor styles; it related negatively to self-defeating and aggr...

Organization Behavior has paid more and more attentions on the impact of leaders’ humor on employees. The leaders’ humor plays an important role in the fight against organization silence as an important means to ease the work pressure and adjust the organizational climate. This study has surveyed 502 Chinese employees to explore the impact of leader’s affiliative humor and aggressive humor styl...