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Kennison, Shelia M. and Rachel H. Messer. 2019. Humor as social risk-taking: The relationships among humor styles, sensation-seeking, and use of curse words. Humor 32 (1) : 1–22.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study tested two suppositions: a) sensation-seeking positively relates to each of the four humor styles and b) the use of curse words also positively relates to each of the four humor styles. The results got from a big sample of undergraduate students partially bolstered the suppositions. There were differences according to gender.