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humor: a standalone construct

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humor1 CONSTRUCTComic humorBERGSON · THE COMIC

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Psychology of the comic

The capacity for the comic

The capacity to perceive, produce, and enjoy what is funny, and by extension the quality that makes something amusing. Bergson's 1900 Le rire (Laughter) offered an early systematic theory of the comic, locating it in a kind of mechanical rigidity in living conduct; later work, gathered in Martin and Ford's 2018 The Psychology of Humor, treats humor as a psychological trait and process, often explained by incongruity theory, in which amusement arises when an expectation is set up and then violated in a harmless way. The referent is a mental and social capacity for the comic, and it is unrelated to the bodily fluids of ancient medicine or the fluids of the eye, though the word descends from them.[1][2][3]

Unit
A person's disposition toward the comic, or a single instance of something found funny
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Indexed by self-report scales such as the Humor Styles Questionnaire, and by ratings of produced or appreciated jokes and cartoons

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References

  1. Bergson, H. (1911). Laughter: An essay on the meaning of the comic (C. Brereton & F. Rothwell, Trans.). Macmillan. (Original work published 1900)
  2. Martin, R. A., & Ford, T. E. (2018). The psychology of humor: An integrative approach (2nd ed.). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2016-0-03294-1
  3. Martin, R. A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00534-2

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