The Sense of Humor : Explorations of a Personality Characteristic / / Willibald Ruch

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1998
• Edizione: Reprint 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2/32
• Soggetto topico: Wit and humor - Psychological aspects; Personality; Literature; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Humanities; Psychiatry and Psychology; Wit and Humor as Topic
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RuchWillibald
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- Foreword and overview. Sense of humor: A new look at an old concept / Ruch, Willibald -- Approaches to the sense of humor: A historical review / Martin, Rod A. -- PART II. CURRENT CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES -- Humor and personality in everyday life / Craik, Kenneth H. / Ware, Aaron P. -- The sense of humor and the truth / Raskin, Victor -- A two-mode model of humor appreciation: Its relation to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality / Ruch, Willibald / Hehl, Franz-Josef -- "Sense" of humor: Perception, intelligence, or expertise? / Derks, Peter / Staley, Rosemary E. / Haselton, Martiε G. -- Is sense of humor a positive personality characteristic? / Kuiper, Nicholas A. / Martin, Rod A. -- Humor and stress revisited / Lefcourt, Herbert Μ. / Thomas, Stacy -- A temperament approach to humor / Ruch, Willibald / Köhler, Gabriele -- PART III. DIFFERENCES AMONG GROUPS -- Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the 20th century / Lampert, Martin D. / Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. -- The ill side of humor: Pathological conditions and sense of humor / Forabosco, Giovannantonio -- The dog that didn't bark in the night: A new sociological approach to the cross-cultural study of humor / Davies, Christie -- PART IV. INTRAINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES -- Influence of mood on humor / Deckers, Lambert -- Development of the sense of humor / Bergen, Doris -- PART V. CAUSES OF INTER- AND INTRA-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES -- Genetic and environmental contributions to children's interpersonal humor / Manke, Beth -- The development and evaluation of a systematic program for improving sense of humor / Nevo, Ofra / Aharonson, Haim / Klingman, Avigdor -- Appendix: Humor measurement toots / Ruch, Willibald -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index
• Titolo autorizzato: The Sense of Humor
• ISBN: 3-11-080460-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463739803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II