This study deals with clarifying the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and decision making styles (rational, intuitive, dependant, spontaneous and avoidant) of managers in Iranian oil industry. A collection of 55 managers were tested.Emotional intelligence was measured by an EI questionnaire and Scott and Bruce’s decision making style questionnaire was used for measuring decision...

Abstract Previous research highlights the potential benefits of engaging with depressive Internet memes for those experiencing symptoms depression, a phenomenon that can be explained by humorous interpretation stimuli and perceived social support through symptom normalization. We examined whether individuals would differ from controls in their related to whilst incorporating mediating role humo...

Women find men's upper body strength highly desirable, albeit primarily within short-term mating contexts. This boundary implicates as possessing both costs and benefits in long-term The desirability of could be contingent upon whether the or are more salient through additional behavioral repertoires that signal a specific type intent. Men's humor style one modality to infer benefits, namely th...

This paper presents the background for developing the Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ), including ideas that guided the ambition to design a tool for assessment of indiv idual differences in sense of humor that was relatively neutral to variations in culture, content and technique. The test was first organized into three dimensions of items, based on face validity of content, with items orien...

Article history: Received 17 December 2010 Received in revised form 30 March 2011 Accepted 31 March 2011 Available online 22 April 2011 A good sense of humor is sexually attractive, perhaps because it reveals intelligence, creativity, and other ‘good genes’ or ‘good parent’ traits. If so, intelligence should predict humor production ability, which in turn should predict mating success. In this ...