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Handbook of Humor Research [electronic resource] : Volume 1: Basic Issues / edited by P.E. McGhee, J.H. Goldstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1983Edition: 1st ed. 1983Description: XII, 252 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461255727
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Felt Versus Feigned Funniness: Issues in Coding Smiling and Laughing -- 2 The Role of Arousal and Hemispheric Lateralization in Humor -- 3 Cognitive Processes in Humor Appreciation -- 4 Linguistics and Humor -- 5 Disparagement Humor -- 6 Humor Development: Toward a Life Span Approach -- 7 Humor and Laughter in Social Interaction and Some Implications for Humor Research -- 8 Sociological Approaches to the Study of Humor -- 9 Humor Research, Methodology, and Theory in Anthropology -- 10 Notes Toward a Field Theory of Humor -- Author Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: About a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book contained eleven original papers that represented the state of knowledge at that time. We confess that it was not easy to fill that volume with first-rate contributions. In a few instances we invited contributors only on the basis of having heard through the grapevine that they were doing interesting work on humor. Our sources proved reliable and we were pleased with the results. We even made new friends as a result of these blind invitations. But the fact remains that in the early 1970s there was only a handful of social scientists studying humor and laughter. The history of humor research prior to the 1970s can also be characterized in terms of the short-term commitment to investigating humor among those who did venture out and try their hand at designing humor studies. For reasons that remain unclear, many investigators published only one or two humor studies before abandoning the area in favor of some other research domain. We have the impression that for decades social scientists have been very intrigued by the idea of studying humor. Psychologists have suspected for a long time that humor somehow is very important in the lives of people. We find laughter and humor occurring almost wherever we find people engaged in social interaction.
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1 Felt Versus Feigned Funniness: Issues in Coding Smiling and Laughing -- 2 The Role of Arousal and Hemispheric Lateralization in Humor -- 3 Cognitive Processes in Humor Appreciation -- 4 Linguistics and Humor -- 5 Disparagement Humor -- 6 Humor Development: Toward a Life Span Approach -- 7 Humor and Laughter in Social Interaction and Some Implications for Humor Research -- 8 Sociological Approaches to the Study of Humor -- 9 Humor Research, Methodology, and Theory in Anthropology -- 10 Notes Toward a Field Theory of Humor -- Author Index.

About a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book contained eleven original papers that represented the state of knowledge at that time. We confess that it was not easy to fill that volume with first-rate contributions. In a few instances we invited contributors only on the basis of having heard through the grapevine that they were doing interesting work on humor. Our sources proved reliable and we were pleased with the results. We even made new friends as a result of these blind invitations. But the fact remains that in the early 1970s there was only a handful of social scientists studying humor and laughter. The history of humor research prior to the 1970s can also be characterized in terms of the short-term commitment to investigating humor among those who did venture out and try their hand at designing humor studies. For reasons that remain unclear, many investigators published only one or two humor studies before abandoning the area in favor of some other research domain. We have the impression that for decades social scientists have been very intrigued by the idea of studying humor. Psychologists have suspected for a long time that humor somehow is very important in the lives of people. We find laughter and humor occurring almost wherever we find people engaged in social interaction.

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