Getting a Laugh: Gender, Status, and Humor in Task Discussions

By Dawn T. Robinson, Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2001

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Literature and Literary Theory

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3. Eric J. Romero

In Social Psychology

1. Eric J. Romero
2. A. Pescosolido
3. Kevin W. Cruthirds
4. Eric Bressler
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6. R. Humphrey
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Citations in the corpus

• The use of humor in the workplace (2006, background): “Managers wishing to improve the interpersonal quality of their workplace environment should consider differences in how gender influences humor (Robinson & Smith-Lovin 2001).”
• Differences between American, Egyptian and Lebanese Humor Styles (2006, result): “This result is consistent with previous findings that men use more humor, in general, than women (Abel, 1998; Decker and Rotondo, 1999; Robinson and Smith-Lovin, 2001; Smeltzer and Leap, 1988).”
• Humor and group effectiveness (2008, background): “Humor use in groups leads to improved group cohesion (Robinson & Smith-Lovin, 2001) by building dyadic, interpersonal bonds between group members as well as by increasing positive affect within the group.”
• The influence of humor on desirability (2006, background): “Findings that men tend to use humor more often than women do (McGhee, 1979), particularly in mixed-sex groups (Robinson & Smith-Lovin, 2001), and seem to use humor in intersexual advertising to a greater extent than do women (Simpson, Gangestad, Christensen, & Leck, 1999) support this contention.”