CHAPTER 5 – The Social Psychology of Humor

By Rod A. Martin. 2007

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “…prototypes of this positive emotion, are known to increase cognitive and social skills such as memory, creativity, and social interaction (see Martin, 2007, for a review), and may share with religion the capacity to promote the perception of everyday life in an alternative way (Berger, 1997).”
• Dissing Oneself versus Dissing Rivals: Effects of Status, Personality, and Sex on the Short-Term and Long-Term Attractiveness of Self-Deprecating and Other-Deprecating Humor (2008, background): “For example, no single theory yet can explain the diverse forms and functions of humor and laughter (Derks, 1996; R. Martin, 2007; R.A. Martin, 1998; Schmidt and Williams, 1971).”
• Humorous Threat Persuasion in Advertising: The Effects of Humor, Threat Intensity, and Issue Involvement (2013, background): “Emotionally, humor elicits mirth (Martin 2007), or positive feelings of pleasure and amusement.”
• Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior (2018, background): “Note that comedy can be produced either intentionally (e.g., a stand-up bit) or unintentionally (e.g., bloopers; Martin 2007; Wyer and Collins 1992).”
• The Wheel Model of humor: Humor events and affect in organizations (2012, background): “…such as contentment, pride, or curiosity, which might be associated with fairly subtle or ambiguous physiological changes, humor events can result in more emotional intensity, and corresponding behaviors such as smiling and laughter that can be easily identified and mimicked (Martin, 2007).”
• The Impact of Leader Humor on Subordinate Job Satisfaction (2016, background): “The reliability and validity of the HSQ have been assessed and supported in research contexts outside of North American samples and in cross-cultural studies (e.g., Kazarian & Martin, 2004), and specifically in Chinese samples (Chen & Martin, 2007).”
• Promoting emotional well-being through the use of humour (2011, background): “In 2007, Martin (2007) raised the important question of whether sense of humour can be enhanced.”