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Publication details [#48679]

Ferguson, Mark A. and Thomas E. Ford. 2008. Disparagement humor: A theoretical and empirical review of psychoanalytic, superiority, and social identity theories. Humor 21 (3) : 283–312.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | humor | identity negotiation | mental state | psychoanalysis

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper draws on social identity, superiority and psychoanalytic theories, assessing their respective empirical support, to explain why disparagement humor is funny.