The present paper tries to discover the position of sense of humor in personality space. Several definitions of humor are discussed and a review of studies relating personality and humor is given. The authors’ conceptualization of humor is introduced and two studies are presented that tried to locate these humor dimensions within personality space. Our humor tests were given to two samples: the...

The article discusses humorous conversational activities ((e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in the context of genre theory. high degree creativity, emergent construction and artistry typical humor call for a flexible concept which makes sense modifications transgressions communicative processes. Some forms are generic, example, standardized fantasizing or teasing. Other exploit our knowl...

Humour plays an important role in human conversations. People use humour to keep a conversation pleasant, to provide some relaxation during a discussion and to cover up mistakes and misunderstandings. Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) that are able to understand and use humour will therefore be more believable and increase the motivation of a user to interact with them (Nijholt, 2005). Unti...