| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Approaches to Humor Appreciation; I: Personality Dispositions in Humor Preferences; 1 : Humor and Anxiety; 2 : Humor as a Disturbing Stimulus; 3 : The Relation of Drive Discharge to the Enjoyment of Humor; 4 : Some Psychological Correlates of Humor Preferences; 5 : Aggression, Need for Social Approval, and Humor Preferences; 6 : Repression and Insight as Related to Reaction to Cartoons; II: The Effects of Experimental Arousal on Humor Responses; 7 : The Effect of Motivation Arousal on Humor Preferences |
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8 : The Angered: Their Susceptibility to Varieties of Humor9 : Aggression Arousal, Hostile Humor, Catharsis; 10 : Mobilization of Inhibitions and the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor; Ill: Cognition and Humor; 11 : Cognitive Challenge as a Factor in Children's Humor Appreciation; 12 : Distraction as a Factor in the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor; IV: Social Aspects of Humor; 13 : The Position of Humor in Human Communication; 14 : Regression in Primitive Clowning; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Wit and humor
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351504461 |
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1351504460 |
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