Appropriate and Inappropriate Uses of Humor by Teachers

By Melissa Bekelja Wanzer, Ann Bainbridge Frymier, A. Wojtaszczyk, Tony E. Smith. 2006

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Subfields: Health Information Management, Social Psychology

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An Explanation of the Relationship between Instructor Humor and Student Learning: Instructional Humor Processing Theory (2010, methodology): “Instructor humor behaviors were measured with the 41 humor behaviors developed by Frymier et al. (2008), which was based on Wanzer et al. (2006) identification of appropriate and inappropriate types of humor.”
Humor on Learning in the College Classroom: Evaluating Benefits and Drawbacks from Instructors' Perspectives. (2010, background): “Inappropriate categories may also include offensive humor such as distasteful jokes that are sexual, morbid, or vulgar in nature (Wanzer et al., 2006).”
Assessing Students’ Perceptions of Inappropriate and Appropriate Teacher Humor (2008, methodology): “For the present investigation, a preliminary humor appropriateness scale was created using items based on the humor categories and subcategories identified by Wanzer et al. (2006). One of the benefits of using these categories is that they were inductively derived from student responses to questions”
Humor in the classroom: the effects of integrated humor on student learning (2018, background): “For example, humor that is inappropriate or offensive (e.g., disparaging toward students or social groups, covering topics such as sex or drugs; Wanzer et al., 2006) has been shown to be unrelated to indicators of student satisfaction such as positive affect toward a course and positive affect…”
A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research (2011, background): “In addition to overusing humor, negative and/or aggressive humor, especially humor disparaging students, can harm instructor credibility, especially trust and goodwill (Berk, 1996; Torok et al., 2004; Wanzer et al. 2006).”