By Rod A. Martin
Learn on humor is conducted in a couple of components in psychology, together with the cognitive (What makes anything funny?), developmental (when can we advance a feeling of humor?), and social (how is humor utilized in social interactions?) even supposing there's sufficient curiosity within the quarter to have spawned numerous societies, the literature is dispersed in a couple of basic journals, with little within the approach of integration of the fabric right into a booklet.
Dr. Martin is likely one of the top recognized researchers within the region, and his examine is going throughout subdisciplines in psychology to be of broad attraction. this can be a singly authored monograph that offers in a single resource, a precis of data researchers may well desire to learn about study into the psychology of humor. the cloth is scholarly, however the presentation of the fabric is acceptable for individuals unusual with the subject-making the e-book appropriate to be used for complex undergraduate and graduate point classes at the psychology of humor-which haven't had a textbook source.
2007 AATH e-book Award for Humor/Laughter learn class!
*Up-to-date insurance of analysis on humor and laughter in each sector of psychology
*Research findings are built-in right into a coherent conceptual framework
*Includes fresh mind imaging reports, evolutionary types, and animal research
*Draws on contributions from sociology, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology
*Provides an summary of theories of humor and early research
*Explores functions of humor in psychotherapy, schooling, and the workplace
*Points out fascinating issues for additional study and promising examine methodologies
*Written in a scholarly but simply obtainable style
*2007 AATH e-book Award for Humor/Laughter learn type
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Part of the reason for this was methodological, since almost all the research made use of jokes and cartoons (which are also essentially a type of joke) as stimuli. Since Freud’s theory of humor does not apply to jokes, these sorts of stimuli could not be used to test hypotheses about humor. As we will see in Chapter 9, more recent research evidence for the role of humor in mental health and coping with stress, although generally not explicitly inspired by Freudian theory, may be viewed as support for some of Freud’s ideas about humor (narrowly defined) as an adaptive defense mechanism.
No one wanted to admit that they did not have a sense of humor. Over the course of the twentieth century, the concept of sense of humor continued to be very desirable, but also became increasingly vague and undefined. While it always retained some notion of the ability to make others laugh or the enjoyment of amusement and laughter, it took on the added meaning of a more general set of desirable personality characteristics. What it meant to have a sense of humor came to be defined in large part by what it meant not to have one.
Thus, each theory accounts for some aspects or types of humor, but fails to give a complete picture. To gain a broad understanding of humor, we need to combine insights from all the different theories. My review of theoretical issues in these two chapters is also an opportunity to provide an overview of the early psychological humor research that was generated by each theory. In these two chapters I will focus particularly on research conducted prior to the early 1980s, to set the stage for the discussion of more recent investigations in subsequent chapters.
