Although humor is not absent from religion, one may wonder whether religion’s historical mistrust of the comic is not accidental, but reflects a deeper reality. Based on theory and research on both psychology of humor and psychology of religion, as well as on the psychological anthropology of early Christianity, the present paper inspects the ways in which religion is related to personality traits, cognitive structures and social consequences associated with sense of humor. Not unexpectedly, the conclusion suggests, from a personality psychology perspective, an a priori negative association between religiousness and sense of humor.
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{"title":"Humor and the brain: A selective review","authors":"W. Fry","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90265652","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":"Over the edge? Subversive humor between colleagues and friends","authors":"J. Holmes, Meredith Marra","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81615324","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":"Script oppositions and logical mechanisms: Modeling incongruities and their resolutions","authors":"S. Attardo, Christian F. Hempelmann, S. Maio","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80160652","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":"Laughin Louie: An analysis of Louis Armstrongs record and its relationship to African-American musical humor","authors":"F. Salamone","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87941997","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":"Is there humor in the Hebrew Bible? A rejoinder","authors":"Hershey H. Friedman","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74028337","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":"Humor and its implications for leadership effectiveness","authors":"R. Priest, Jordan E. Swain","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"169-189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77361563","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":"On incongruities and logical inconsistencies in humor: The delicate balance","authors":"D. D. Perlmutter","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87456389","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":"A preliminary examination of humor in Northern Italian tradition: The Franco-Italian epic","authors":"L. Morgan","doi":"10.1515/HUMR.2002.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2002.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51635,"journal":{"name":"Humor-International Journal of Humor Research","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2002-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84026967","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}