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Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates 定期和开玩笑的狗哨对政治候选人认知的影响
Pub Date : 2021-12-08 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0087
Svyatoslav Prokhorets, D. Saucier
Abstract Our experiment showed a scenario where a White politician used a racist dog whistle (DW) when referring to his Black opponent. We used pilot data to determine DW statements and then tested whether different DWs (joke or regular) would affect perceptions of candidates based on participants’ levels of subtle and explicit racism compared to a comment without racial undertones. Our results indicated that while neither DW affected perceptions of the Black candidate based on participants’ levels of subtle racism, when a regular DW was used, subtle racism was positively associated with more positive perceptions of the White candidate. Our findings can broadly be explained within the context of modern racism and the suppression justification model of prejudice. The presence of a DW served as a prime, allowing those who have subtle anti-Black prejudice to express it through more positive personal perceptions of the White candidate. Without opportunities to justify the expression of their subtle prejudice (i.e. have a non-prejudice reason to dislike the candidate), the participants’ did not report more negative perceptions of the Black candidate. However, there was a “backlash” and participants were less likely to consider voting for the White candidate, particularly when he used a joke DW.
我们的实验展示了一个场景,一个白人政治家在提到他的黑人对手时使用了种族主义的狗哨(DW)。我们使用试点数据来确定DW陈述,然后测试不同的DW(笑话或常规)是否会影响候选人的看法,基于参与者的微妙和明确的种族主义水平,与没有种族暗示的评论相比。我们的研究结果表明,虽然DW不会影响参与者对黑人候选人的看法,但当使用常规DW时,微妙的种族主义与对白人候选人的更积极的看法呈正相关。我们的研究结果可以在现代种族主义和偏见的抑制辩护模型的背景下得到广泛的解释。DW的存在起到了启动作用,使那些对黑人有微妙偏见的人能够通过对白人候选人更积极的个人看法来表达这种偏见。如果没有机会证明他们微妙的偏见的表达(例如,有一个非偏见的理由不喜欢候选人),参与者并没有报告更多对黑人候选人的负面看法。然而,这引起了“反弹”,参与者不太可能考虑投票给白人候选人,特别是当他使用笑话DW时。
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引用次数: 0
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome 认知、社会和情感特征如何影响幽默欣赏:自闭症谱系障碍和威廉姆斯综合征的幽默感
Pub Date : 2021-11-26 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0038
Noémie Treichel, Daniel Dukes, K. Barisnikov, Andrea C. Samson
Abstract Humor is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon composed of a variety of cognitive, social, and emotional processes. This paper will discuss humor appreciation in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), a rare genetic disorder mainly characterized by intellectual disabilities, high social approach tendencies and high positive emotions. Drawing on research on the comprehension and appreciation of humor in individuals with ASD, this paper aims to better understand how the particular cognitive, social, and emotional profile of individuals with WS might affect their appreciation of humor and how such research could ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the nature of humor.
幽默是一种复杂的、多方面的现象,由多种认知、社会和情感过程组成。本文将讨论自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)和威廉姆斯综合征(WS)患者的幽默欣赏能力。威廉姆斯综合征是一种罕见的遗传疾病,主要以智力障碍、高社交倾向和高积极情绪为特征。通过对ASD个体对幽默的理解和欣赏的研究,本文旨在更好地了解WS个体的特定认知,社会和情感特征如何影响他们对幽默的欣赏,以及这些研究如何最终导致对幽默本质的更好理解。
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引用次数: 5
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale 幽默感量表的信度和效度
Pub Date : 2021-11-26 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0042
Daniel J. Lydon, W. McDermut
Abstract This study examined the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the sense of humor scale (SHS; McGhee, Paul E. 1999. Health, healing and the amuse system: Humor as survival training, 3rd edn. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt), a 24-item questionnaire developed to measure overall sense of humor. Participants included 99 adults, 105 undergraduates, and 111 comedians. One-week test-retest reliability was good (r = 0.75). Internal consistency of the overall scale was excellent, and acceptable-to-excellent for the six subscales. Item-total correlations were generally strong. Comedians scored higher than undergraduates and adults, supporting the construct validity of the SHS. Convergent validity was strong as the SHS was positively correlated with the Humor Styles Questionnaire total and its subscales. Our analyses of SHS’s associations with the Big Five personality dimensions led to findings that are consistent with prior research, as the SHS was positively correlated with extraversion and openness to experience, but uncorrelated with neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Factor analyses found a bifactor model to be the best fitting model for the SHS. Ancillary bifactor fit indices provided additional support for the notion that the SHS may not be best described as unidimensional. Thus, it can be argued that the subscales are relevant for both research and applied work as they offer unique contributions.
摘要本研究对幽默感量表(SHS)的信度、效度和因子结构进行了检验。Paul E. McGhee, 1999。健康,治疗和娱乐系统:幽默作为生存训练,第三版。Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt),这是一份包含24个项目的调查问卷,用来衡量人们的整体幽默感。参与者包括99名成年人、105名大学生和111名喜剧演员。一周重测信度良好(r = 0.75)。整体量表的内部一致性为优,六个分量表的内部一致性为可接受至优。项目总数的相关性通常很强。喜剧演员得分高于大学生和成人,支持SHS的结构效度。其收敛效度与幽默风格问卷总分及各分量表呈显著正相关。我们对SHS与五大人格维度的关联进行了分析,结果与之前的研究一致,即SHS与外向性和开放性呈正相关,但与神经质、亲和性和尽责性不相关。因子分析发现,双因子模型是最适合SHS的模型。辅助的双因子拟合指数为SHS可能不能最好地描述为一维的概念提供了额外的支持。因此,可以认为,由于子量表提供了独特的贡献,因此它们与研究和应用工作都相关。
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引用次数: 1
From the Editor 来自编辑
Pub Date : 2021-11-19 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0120
Christian F. Hempelmann
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引用次数: 0
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma 在电视新闻中用幽默来掩饰种族主义:罗姆人的例子
Pub Date : 2021-11-19 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0104
Petre Breazu, D. Machin
Abstract It has been argued that more research is needed on the role of humor in the expression of racism. One reason is that, in the ‘post racial’ society, overt racism has become publicly unacceptable and, therefore, tends to appear in more concealed forms. In this paper, as part of a larger project on media representations of the Roma, we look at the role of humor in a Romanian television news clip reporting on the financial rewards of begging. We draw on the critical scholarship in humor research and carry out a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a news report selected from a larger corpus. We argue that through humor a recontextualisation of the Roma’s situation takes place, transforming their actual situation of poverty and social marginalisation into a humorous account of cultural failure, incompetence, stupidity and calculated money grabbing. We show that humor is one way by which culture becomes represented as embodied by ethnic minorities.
摘要幽默在种族主义表达中的作用有待进一步研究。一个原因是,在“后种族主义”社会中,公开的种族主义已变得不可接受,因此往往以更隐蔽的形式出现。在这篇文章中,作为一个关于罗姆人媒体表现的大型项目的一部分,我们着眼于幽默在罗马尼亚电视新闻片段中所扮演的角色,该片段报道了乞讨的经济回报。我们借鉴幽默研究中的批判性学术,对一篇从较大语料库中挑选出来的新闻报道进行多模态批评语篇分析。我们认为,通过幽默,对罗姆人的处境进行了重新语境化,将他们贫穷和社会边缘化的实际情况转变为文化失败、无能、愚蠢和有计划的金钱掠夺的幽默叙述。我们表明,幽默是少数民族体现文化的一种方式。
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引用次数: 5
“Some people work a bit more than me, and so we tease them”: the production of an elite student community in an elite French higher education institution “有些人工作比我多一点,所以我们取笑他们”:法国一所精英高等教育机构的精英学生社区的产物
Pub Date : 2021-11-19 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0030
Christophe Birolini
Abstract This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of student humor in a French elite higher education institution, specifically how students in the student community use the term polard. The data was collected between 2014 and 2018 in one of France’s most prestigious elite higher education institution. There are two main ways this term is used as humor, indirectly mocking students, notably those outside the student community, a practice that constructs the polard as a foil figure of a student who spends all their time doing schoolwork and refrains from participating in extracurricular activities, and teasing friends and acquaintances in interactions following a devalued behavior, seeming over-concerned with studies. Furthermore, there exist interactional scripts students can use to successfully navigate these teasing interactions without losing face. Finally, this humor is discussed in relation to the elite setting, as it is linked to the social closure of these elite higher education institutions, and it contributes to the production of an elite student community, by socializing students to privileged self-presentations characterized by ease and by creating distinctions between students, separating the truly elite students from the others.
摘要本文介绍了一项关于法国精英高等教育机构学生幽默的民族志研究结果,特别是学生群体中的学生如何使用“polard”一词。该数据是在2014年至2018年期间在法国最负盛名的精英高等教育机构之一收集的。这个词有两种主要的幽默用法,一种是间接地嘲笑学生,尤其是那些在学生群体之外的学生;另一种是把“polard”塑造成一个把所有时间都花在做作业上、不参加课外活动的学生的陪饰形象;另一种是在行为不当、似乎过于关注学习的情况下,在与朋友和熟人的互动中取笑他们。此外,存在一些互动脚本,学生可以使用它们来成功地驾驭这些戏弄的互动,而不会丢脸。最后,我们讨论了这种幽默与精英环境的关系,因为它与这些精英高等教育机构的社会封闭有关,它有助于精英学生社区的产生,通过将学生社会化到特权的自我表现,以轻松为特征,并通过在学生之间建立区别,将真正的精英学生与其他学生分开。
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引用次数: 0
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression 幽默风格影响抑郁症患者对抑郁相关网络模因的感知
Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0045
K. Gardner, Nicola-Maria Jabs, Jennifer Drabble, U. Akram
Abstract Previous research highlights the potential benefits of engaging with depressive Internet memes for those experiencing symptoms of depression, a phenomenon that can be explained by the humorous interpretation of depressive stimuli and perceived social support through symptom normalization. We examined whether individuals experiencing depressive symptoms would differ from controls in their interpretation of Internet memes related to depression, whilst incorporating the mediating role of humor style. N=78 individuals with self-reported depressive symptoms (≥24 on CES-D) and 67 controls (≤23) rated the emotional valance, humor, relatability, shareability, and mood-improving potential of 32 depressive and control memes (depicting neutral/positive social commentaries). Measures of depression and humor style were also completed. Perceived humor, relatability, shareability and mood-improving potential of depressive, but not control, memes were greater amongst individuals displaying depressive symptoms. However, differential ratings of humor, shareability and relatability were mediated by the extent of ones self-defeating humor style. These outcomes further evidence benefits of interacting with depression-related Internet memes for those with depression.
先前的研究强调了参与抑郁网络模因对经历抑郁症状的人的潜在益处,这一现象可以通过抑郁刺激的幽默解释和通过症状正常化感知的社会支持来解释。我们研究了经历抑郁症状的个体在解释与抑郁相关的网络模因时是否会与对照组不同,同时纳入幽默风格的中介作用。N=78名自我报告抑郁症状的个体(≥24)和67名对照(≤23)对32个抑郁和控制模因(描绘中性/积极的社会评论)的情绪效价、幽默、相关性、可分享性和情绪改善潜力进行了评分。同时还完成了抑郁和幽默风格的测量。在表现出抑郁症状的个体中,模因的感知幽默、相关性、可分享性和情绪改善潜力更大,但控制能力不强。然而,幽默、可分享性和相关性的不同评级是由自我挫败的幽默风格的程度所调节的。这些结果进一步证明了与抑郁症相关的网络模因互动对抑郁症患者的好处。
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引用次数: 6
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up 身份不是玩笑(真的吗?):维韦克·马凯硕(Vivek Mahbubani)的单口相声中体现了幽默和身份
Pub Date : 2021-08-30 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0049
Charles Lam
Abstract Using the lenses of humor studies and narrative analysis, this paper discusses the stand-up comedy of Vivek Mahbubani, a Hong Kong-born stand-up comedian of Indian descent. Mahbubani uses humor about ethnicity-related issues to highlight the irrationality of racial discrimination and stereotypes. Specifically, Mahbubani challenges people’s preconceived ideas about the speakerhood of Cantonese and the local identity. The present study demonstrates how this comedian has effectively built humor into his narrative as a response to oppression, thus engaging the local, ethnically Chinese audience to reflect on the social and ethnic tension felt by minorities in Hong Kong. This study further argues that Mahbubani’s comedy reflects a more general trend in stand-up comedy: humor as a vehicle for a more inclusive and progressive grand narrative across different cultures; this trend stands in stark contrast to earlier ethnic jokes that often made minorities the target of verbal humor.
摘要本文运用幽默研究和叙事分析的视角,对香港出生的印度裔单口喜剧演员维韦克·马凯硕的单口喜剧进行了探讨。马凯硕用幽默的方式谈论种族问题,强调种族歧视和刻板印象的不合理性。具体来说,马凯硕挑战了人们对广东话的使用和本地身份的先入为主的看法。本研究展示了这位喜剧演员如何有效地将幽默融入他的叙事中,作为对压迫的回应,从而吸引当地的华裔观众反思香港少数民族所感受到的社会和种族紧张。本研究进一步认为,马凯硕的喜剧反映了单口喜剧的一个更普遍的趋势:幽默作为一种工具,在不同的文化中更包容、更进步的宏大叙事;这种趋势与早期的种族笑话形成鲜明对比,后者经常将少数民族作为口头幽默的目标。
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Satire as safety valve: moving beyond a mistaken metaphor 讽刺作为安全阀:超越错误的隐喻
Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0080
D. Declercq, Chihab El Khachab
Abstract The safety valve metaphor is ubiquitous in scholarship on satire and usually implies that, although the genre seems intent on upsetting the political order, it really has unintended conservative effects which maintain the status quo. Although there is previous criticism of the safety valve theory, which focuses on the inadequacy of its empirical predictions or the flawed theoretical foundations of the associated relief theory of humor, the metaphor remains in common use – and continues to obscure our understanding of satire’s political effects. What remains overlooked in humor studies is the fundamental mistakenness of the metaphor itself. We argue that comparing satire to a safety valve always implies a reasoning about the genre which is mistaken because the mechanistic function of a safety valve cannot be informatively mapped onto the political effects of satire. As a result, the safety valve metaphor is problematically opaque (because its actual meaning is unclear) and elastic (because it means whatever anyone wants it to mean). The metaphor fails to elucidate how satire works even in authoritarian political contexts, like Egypt, which should, in principle, act as a fertile ground for its purported function as a safety valve.
安全阀隐喻在讽刺文学研究中无处不在,它通常暗示,尽管讽刺文学似乎有意颠覆政治秩序,但它实际上具有意想不到的保守效果,维持了现状。尽管先前有对安全阀理论的批评,这些批评集中在其经验预测的不足或幽默相关救济理论的理论基础的缺陷上,但这个比喻仍然被普遍使用-并且继续模糊我们对讽刺的政治影响的理解。幽默研究中一直被忽视的是隐喻本身的根本错误。我们认为,将讽刺作品与安全阀进行比较总是意味着对该类型的推理是错误的,因为安全阀的机械功能无法在信息上映射到讽刺作品的政治效果。因此,安全阀的比喻是有问题的不透明(因为它的实际含义是不清楚的)和弹性(因为它意味着任何人想要它的意思)。这个比喻并不能说明讽刺作品是如何在专制政治背景下发挥作用的,比如埃及,原则上,它应该作为一块肥沃的土壤,发挥其所谓的安全阀的作用。
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Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure 谈话中失败的幽默:作为一种互动失败的失调和(不)隶属关系
Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2021-0025
Béatrice Priego-Valverde
Abstract This article reports on research on failed humor in French conversation. The aim is to investigate disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure. For this purpose, 1,345 instances of humor were identified within a corpus of eight interactions in French. Among them, 259 were instances of failed humor, 158 of which were produced by the recipient, i.e., the participant who had taken the turn to produce humor. These 158 instances were analyzed using a method combining Conversation Analysis and corpus-based approaches. Conversation is seen as intrinsically dynamic: participants constantly shift between serious and humorous frames, different activities and different roles within them. In this light, each instance of failed humor was analyzed in relation to the frame and the type of activity within which it was embedded. All of the instances were found to be either disaligned and affiliated or disaligned and disaffiliated. Viewing conversation through its dynamism thus brings to light the ways in which disalignment and (dis)affiliation are a type of interactional failure. The analysis of three examples of disaligned and (dis)affiliated humor illustrates this type of interactional failure.
摘要本文对法语会话中的失败幽默进行了研究。目的是调查失调和(不)隶属关系作为一种类型的相互作用失败。为此,在8个法语互动语料库中发现了1345个幽默实例。其中259个是失败的幽默,其中158个是由接受者,即轮流幽默的参与者产生的。使用结合会话分析和基于语料库的方法对这158个实例进行了分析。对话在本质上是动态的:参与者不断地在严肃和幽默的框架、不同的活动和其中不同的角色之间转换。从这个角度来看,每个失败的幽默实例都是根据它所包含的框架和活动类型来分析的。所有的实例被发现要么是脱位和附属,要么是脱位和附属。因此,通过对话的动态性来观察对话,可以揭示出失调和(不)隶属关系是一种互动失败的方式。对三个不一致和(不)关联的幽默例子的分析说明了这种类型的互动失败。
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