TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aharonson,Haim
AU  - Bergen,Doris
AU  - Craik,Kenneth H.
AU  - Davies,Christie
AU  - Deckers,Lambert
AU  - Derks,Peter
AU  - Ervin-Tripp,Susan M.
AU  - Forabosco,Giovannantonio
AU  - Haselton,Martiε G.
AU  - Hehl,Franz-Josef
AU  - Klingman,Avigdor
AU  - Kuiper,Nicholas A.
AU  - Köhler,Gabriele
AU  - Lampert,Martin D.
AU  - Lefcourt,Herbert Μ.
AU  - Manke,Beth
AU  - Martin,Rod A.
AU  - Nevo,Ofra
AU  - Raskin,Victor
AU  - Ruch,Willibald
AU  - Staley,Rosemary E.
AU  - Thomas,Stacy
AU  - Ware,Aaron P.
TI  - The Sense of Humor: Explorations of a Personality Characteristic 
T2  - Humor Research [HR] ,
SN  - 9783110162073
AV  - BF575.L3 S39 1998eb
U1  - 155.2/32 21
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Personality
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Humor
KW  - Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik
KW  - Persönlichkeitsfaktor
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of contributors --; Preface and acknowledgments --; PART I. INTRODUCTION --; Foreword and overview. Sense of humor: A new look at an old concept --; Approaches to the sense of humor: A historical review --; PART II. CURRENT CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES --; Humor and personality in everyday life --; The sense of humor and the truth --; A two-mode model of humor appreciation: Its relation to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality --; “Sense” of humor: Perception, intelligence, or expertise? --; Is sense of humor a positive personality characteristic? --; Humor and stress revisited --; A temperament approach to humor --; PART III. DIFFERENCES AMONG GROUPS --; Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the 20th century --; The ill side of humor: Pathological conditions and sense of humor --; The dog that didn't bark in the night: A new sociological approach to the cross-cultural study of humor --; PART IV. INTRAINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES --; Influence of mood on humor --; Development of the sense of humor --; PART V. CAUSES OF INTER- AND INTRA-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES --; Genetic and environmental contributions to children's interpersonal humor --; The development and evaluation of a systematic program for improving sense of humor --; Appendix: Humor measurement toots --; Bibliography --; Author index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804607
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110804607
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110804607/original
ER  -