A 3-item humor measure derived from the Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ: Svebak 1996) was included in a health survey of all adult residents of a Norwegian county (study n ¼ 65,333). Health-related measures included subjective health satisfaction, prevalence of common bodily complaints (e.g., nausea, diarrhea, pounding heart, dyspnea, musculuskeletal pain), blood pressure, and body mass index. SHQ mean scores were slightly skewed toward high values. Overall, humor scores (metamessage sensitivity, liking of humor, laughter expressiveness) declined with age (r ¼� .29) and were slightly higher in males than females among younger age cohorts. Sense of humor was positively correlated with overall health satisfaction (r ¼ .21) and negatively related to systolic blood pressure (r ¼� .14). However, after controlling for age, only the partial correlation with subjective health satisfaction remained greater than .10 (partial r ¼ .12). Due to the large number of participants, coe‰cients were statistically significant despite very low explained variance. Overall, these data, comprising the largest study of humor and health ever undertaken, provide very little evidence for a direct relationship between sense of humor and physical health parameters.
{"title":"The prevalence of sense of humor in a large, unselected county population in Norway: Relations with age, sex, and some health indicators","authors":"S. Svebak, R. Martin, J. Holmen","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2004.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2004.001","url":null,"abstract":"A 3-item humor measure derived from the Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ: Svebak 1996) was included in a health survey of all adult residents of a Norwegian county (study n ¼ 65,333). Health-related measures included subjective health satisfaction, prevalence of common bodily complaints (e.g., nausea, diarrhea, pounding heart, dyspnea, musculuskeletal pain), blood pressure, and body mass index. SHQ mean scores were slightly skewed toward high values. Overall, humor scores (metamessage sensitivity, liking of humor, laughter expressiveness) declined with age (r ¼� .29) and were slightly higher in males than females among younger age cohorts. Sense of humor was positively correlated with overall health satisfaction (r ¼ .21) and negatively related to systolic blood pressure (r ¼� .14). However, after controlling for age, only the partial correlation with subjective health satisfaction remained greater than .10 (partial r ¼ .12). Due to the large number of participants, coe‰cients were statistically significant despite very low explained variance. Overall, these data, comprising the largest study of humor and health ever undertaken, provide very little evidence for a direct relationship between sense of humor and physical health parameters.","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2004-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78605907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prior studies have shown that watching a funny film leads to an increase in pain tolerance. The present study aimed at separating three factors considered potentially essential (mood, behavior, and cognition related to humor) and examined whether they are responsible for this effect. Furthermore, the study examined whether trait cheerfulness and trait seriousness, as measured by the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI; Ruch et al. 1996), moderate changes in pain tolerance. Fifty-sixty female subjects were assigned randomly to three groups, each having a different task to pursue while watching a funny film: (1) get into a cheerful mood without smiling or laughing ("Cheerfulness"); (2) smile and laugh extensively ("Exhilaration"); and (3) produce a humorous commentary to the film ("Humor production"). Pain tolerance was measured using the cold pressor test before, immediately after, and twenty minutes after the film. Results indicated that pain tolerance increased for participants from before to after watching the funny film and remained high for the twenty minutes. This effect was moderated by facial but not verbal indicators of enjoyment of humor. Participants low in trait seriousness had an overall higher pain tolerance. Subjects with a high score in trait cheerfulness showed an increase in pain tolerance after producing humor while watching the film whereas subjects low in trait cheerfulness showed a similar increase after smiling and laughter during the film.
先前的研究表明，观看搞笑电影会增加对疼痛的耐受力。目前的研究旨在分离出三个被认为可能至关重要的因素(情绪、行为和与幽默相关的认知)，并检查它们是否对这种效果负责。此外，研究还考察了性格愉悦度和性格严肃性是否通过状态-特质-愉悦度量表(STCI)测量;Ruch et al. 1996)，疼痛耐受力的中度变化。560名女性受试者被随机分为三组，每组在观看搞笑电影时都有不同的任务:(1)进入一个愉快的情绪，既不微笑也不大笑(“快乐”);(2)开怀大笑(“兴奋”);(3)对影片进行幽默评论(“幽默制作”)。在观影前、观影后和观影后20分钟分别用冷压试验测量疼痛耐受性。结果表明，在观看搞笑电影之前和之后，参与者的疼痛耐受力有所增加，并在20分钟内保持较高水平。这种效果被面部表情而非言语上的幽默享受所缓和。特质严肃性较低的参与者总体上有较高的疼痛耐受性。快乐性格得分高的受试者在观看电影时表现出幽默后疼痛耐受力增加，而快乐性格得分低的受试者在观看电影时微笑和大笑后疼痛耐受力也有类似的增加。
{"title":"Do cheerfulness, exhilaration, and humor production moderate pain tolerance? A FACS study","authors":"K. Zweyer, Barbara Velker, W. Ruch","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2004.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2004.009","url":null,"abstract":"Prior studies have shown that watching a funny film leads to an increase in pain tolerance. The present study aimed at separating three factors considered potentially essential (mood, behavior, and cognition related to humor) and examined whether they are responsible for this effect. Furthermore, the study examined whether trait cheerfulness and trait seriousness, as measured by the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI; Ruch et al. 1996), moderate changes in pain tolerance. Fifty-sixty female subjects were assigned randomly to three groups, each having a different task to pursue while watching a funny film: (1) get into a cheerful mood without smiling or laughing (\"Cheerfulness\"); (2) smile and laugh extensively (\"Exhilaration\"); and (3) produce a humorous commentary to the film (\"Humor production\"). Pain tolerance was measured using the cold pressor test before, immediately after, and twenty minutes after the film. Results indicated that pain tolerance increased for participants from before to after watching the funny film and remained high for the twenty minutes. This effect was moderated by facial but not verbal indicators of enjoyment of humor. Participants low in trait seriousness had an overall higher pain tolerance. Subjects with a high score in trait cheerfulness showed an increase in pain tolerance after producing humor while watching the film whereas subjects low in trait cheerfulness showed a similar increase after smiling and laughter during the film.","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"37 1","pages":"85-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2004-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79040946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of sense of humor, life regard, and stressors for bodily complaints among high school students","authors":"S. Svebak, K. Götestam, E. N. Jensen","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2004.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2004.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2004-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88087747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plato on the psychology of humor","authors":"C. Shelley","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"5 1","pages":"351-367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76579907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying a particular family humor style: A sociolinguistic discourse analysis","authors":"Elisa L. Everts","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"79 1","pages":"369-412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83470768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm","authors":"S. Attardo, Jodi Eisterhold, J. Hay, I. Poggi","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"243-260"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85609188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversational humor among stroke survivors","authors":"R. Heath, L. Blonder","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"66 1","pages":"91-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78995889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander P. Vilaythong, R. Arnau, D. H. Rosen, Nathan Mascaro
{"title":"Humor and hope: Can humor increase hope?","authors":"Alexander P. Vilaythong, R. Arnau, D. H. Rosen, Nathan Mascaro","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"79-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84736592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Humour will be a necessity in future interfaces, especiall y in the area at the crossroads of entertainment and education, the so called edutainment. Some considerations on the state of the art in natural langauge processing and on computational humour prospects are presented, as well as some ideas for the introduction of certain types of computational humour in seductive interfaces. In doing that, reference is made to some of the sparkling exchanges of the Marx Brothers.1.
{"title":"Password swordfish: Verbal humor in the interface","authors":"O. Stock","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2003.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2003.015","url":null,"abstract":"Humour will be a necessity in future interfaces, especiall y in the area at the crossroads of entertainment and education, the so called edutainment. Some considerations on the state of the art in natural langauge processing and on computational humour prospects are presented, as well as some ideas for the introduction of certain types of computational humour in seductive interfaces. In doing that, reference is made to some of the sparkling exchanges of the Marx Brothers.1.","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"121 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2003-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/HUMR.2003.015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72427891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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