Functions of humor in the conversations of men and women

By Jennifer Hay. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Linguistics

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Way Off-Policy Batch Deep Reinforcement Learning of Implicit Human Preferences in Dialog (2019, background): “We design several intrinsic reward functions based on the rich, interactive content of conversation, taking inspiration from the psychology of human conversation: 1) eliciting positive sentiment and transitions from negative to positive sentiment, due to the importance of emotion to creating a sense”
Human-centric Dialog Training via Offline Reinforcement Learning (2020, background): “…importance of emotion in creating a sense of understanding (Bodie et al., 2015; Weger Jr et al., 2010), laughter as important to building solidarity (Hay, 2000), paraphrasing and style matching as helping to facilitate good conversation (Ireland et al., 2011; Weger Jr et al., 2010), and asking…”
Approximating Interactive Human Evaluation with Self-Play for Open-Domain Dialog Systems (2019, background): “Specifically, inspired by the effectiveness of sense of humor in creating solidarity [10], style matching for forming relationship stability and social cohesiveness [11, 12], and the importance of active listening through forming follow up questions [13], we propose metrics to capture sentiment, sem”
Isn't it ironic? Defining the scope of humorous irony (2014, background): “Teasing is a widely recognized and discussed category of conversational humor (e.g. Norrick 1993; Hay 2000; Boxer and Cortés-Conde 1997; Lampert and Ervin-Tripp 2006; Partington 2008).”
A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research (2011, background): “Power-based humor Establish boundaries and create status differences Hay (2000) Appropriate”
Talk in a play frame: More on laughter and intimacy (2007, background): “…research exploring gender variation in humour has established a clear pattern of difference among speakers, with men preferring more formulaic joking and women sharing funny stories to create solidarity (see Crawford and Gressley, 1991; Boxer and Cortès-Conde, 1997; Hay, 2000; Crawford, 2003).”
Sharing a joke: The effects of a similar sense of humor on affiliation and altruism (2013, background): “In the context of same-sex dyads, research has found an apparent sex difference in the function of humor, with men more likely to make jokes at others' expense, and women more likely to make jokes at their own expense (Hay, 2000; Lampert & Ervin-Tripp, 2006).”
The use of humor in the workplace (2006, background): “emphasize similarities (Hay 2000).”
Risky laughter: Teasing and self-directed joking among male and female friends (2006, background): “Risky humor in mixed groups was also more likely to occur as a continuation of an earlier humorous key.”