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Publication details [#53588]

Ruch, Willibald and Hugo Carretero-Dios. 2010. Humor appreciation and sensation seeking: Invariance of findings across culture and assessment instrument? Humor 23 (4) : 427–445.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | evaluation | humor | joke | language and culture

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study postulates that sensation seeking (SS) can forecast both structure and content of jokes and cartoons. It is found that structure and content have to be divided both theoretically and empirically in research on appreciation of content categories.