Humor as a Double‐Edged Sword: Four Functions of Humor in Communication

By J. Meyer. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Philosophy

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Citations in the corpus

• Predicting the Consumption of Political TV Satire: Affinity for Political Humor, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report (2011, background): “Incongruity is described as people laughing at the unexpected or when others point out societal inconsistencies (Meyer, 2000).”
• Emotions in Organizations (2009, background): “Empirical studies also indicate that humor and laughter have important functions such as creating group solidarity (Coser, 1959; Meyer, 2000), enhancing self-esteem at the expense of others (Collinson, 2002), gaining approval by others (Meyer, 2000), managing embarrassment or stress (Vinton, 1989), ”
• Cracking Jokes and Crafting Selves: Sensemaking and Identity Management Among Human Service Workers (2006, background): “Through playfulness, employees clarify ambiguous messages (Meyer, 2000), but also limit and normalize certain ways of thinking and speaking in organizations (Collinson, 1988).”
• The impact of leader's humor on employees' psychological empowerment: the moderating role of tenure (2011, background): “That is, comprehension of humor requires cognitive abilities (Eisend, 2009) and some positive emotional and social contextual factors, such as a warm atmosphere (Rothbart, 1976) and communicator’s identification with one’s audience (Meyer, 2000).”
• Humor and group effectiveness (2008, background): “Incongruity theory is based on the premise that surprises and uncommon circumstances engender humor (Meyer, 2000).”
• Humorous communication: Finding a place for humor in communication research. (2002, background): “Within the individual category of humor research there are three major humor theories: superiority theory, relief theory, and incongruity theory (Berger, 1993; Berlyne, 1972; Burns & Burns, 1975; Chapman and Foot, 1976; Feinberg, 1978; Meyer, 1998, 2000; Monro, 1951; Morreall, 1983; Raskin, 1985).”
• How Adolescents Use Social Media to Cope with Feelings of Loneliness and Anxiety During COVID-19 Lockdown (2020, neutral): “39 Laughter has also shown to increase perceptions of similarity among people, increasing social connectedness and well-being.”