Humor in Pedagogy: How Ha-Ha can Lead to Aha!

By R. Garner. 2006

318 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. Alan K. Goodboy
2. San Bolkan
3. Lawrence M. Lesser
4. Darrin J. Griffin
5. Dennis K. Pearl

In Social Psychology

1. Alan K. Goodboy
2. San Bolkan
3. Lawrence M. Lesser
4. Norah E. Dunbar
5. Darrin J. Griffin
6. Dennis K. Pearl
7. Judee K. Burgoon

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research (2011, background): “…that what is ‘‘learned with laughter is learned well’’ (p. 121), and there is a wealth of anecdotal accounts in support of Robinson’s belief (e.g., Brown, 1995; Dodge & Rossett, 1982; Fitzsimmons & McKenzie, 2003; Garner, 2006; Gilliland & Mauritsen, 1971; Hall, 1969; Scott, 1976; Warnock, 1989).”
• Humor in the classroom: the effects of integrated humor on student learning (2018, background): “…are decades old (e.g., Kaplan & Pascoe, 1977), were conducted without manipulation checks and without a concern for possible confounding variables (Garner, 2006; Hackathorn, Garczynski, Blankmeyer, Tennial, & Solomon, 2011; Ziv, 1988), involve incidental as opposed to intentional learning…”
• Functional Fun in Statistics Teaching: Resources, Research and Recommendations (2008, background): “Garner (2006) randomly assigned N = 117 undergraduates to review three 40-minute lecture videos (in "distance education format") on statistics research methods with or without humor inserts.”