Laughing and liking: Exploring the interpersonal effects of humor use in initial social interactions

By S. Treger, Susan Sprecher, Ralph Erber. 2013

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8866eb00e03ea5ecf5459235fd1c5753cfb60940

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2. A. Barsky
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Citations in the corpus

• Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior (2018, background): “Lab experiments similarly found that student participants liked and reported more romantic interest in one another after engaging in humorous tasks (e.g., discussing jokes, playing charades while speaking a nonsense language) rather than similarly pleasant but nonhumorous tasks (e.g., discussing sch”