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Humour styles as predictors of psychological and somatic health in undergraduates of COMSATS University, Lahore
2020
JOURNAL OF PAKISTAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
A sample of 199 (93 females & 106 males) university students falling in age range from 18 to 26 years (Mage = 21.02, & SD = 1.78) were assessed on self-report measures to Humour styles questionnaire, Physical ...
Conclusion: It was concluded that relationship oriented positive humour style is a protective factor against psychological distress but negative humour styles are detrimental for physical health. ...
, but relationship directed humour styles were more important in collectivist cultures and in actions directed at achieving interpersonal goals 13 . ...
doi:10.47391/jpma.184
pmid:33475542
fatcat:3ss264lcpbccnnivhmtbt65rn4
Motion of the vitreous humour in a deforming eye–fluid-structure interaction between a nonlinear elastic solid and viscoleastic fluid
2018
Applied Mathematics and Computation
We study the motion of vitreous humour in a deforming eyeball. ...
From the mechanical and computational perspective this is a task to solve a fluid-structure interaction problem between a complex viscoelastic fluid (vitreour humour) and a nonlinear elastic solid (sclera ...
Both on the anterior part Γcontact1 and the posterior part Γcontact2 we prescribe the displacement in the x-axis direction
ux =def u • ex̂ and we allow the sample to freely move in the other directions ...
doi:10.1016/j.amc.2018.04.030
fatcat:4pbgsgov7vcpvpeoeuuvhuuw5y
100 years ago A chimpanzee's humour
1989
Nature
Coalescence soon leads to the b Island coalescence 100 years ago A chimpanzee's humour IN a recent lecture Mr. ...
Solid lines indicate the magnetic field direction, open arrows the plasma flow direction and the dotted region is a current sheet. b, Basic physics of the magnetic coalescence instability -a process which ...
doi:10.1038/339660a0
fatcat:2rictvgwfja2djdl476eiedch4
The effects of relationship context and modality on ratings of funniness
2013
Personality and Individual Differences
The effects of attractiveness on humour judgement may also be explained by an association with flirtation as flirting may be most enjoyable when directed by attractive individuals. ...
Perceived similarity between producing humour and flirting may explain why humour is more preferable in a short-term partner as flirting may be seen to signal proceptivity. ...
All stimuli were presented online on a desktop computer with headphones, with each rater using the same computer and headphones each time. ...
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.020
fatcat:teytdiuifzhzjhckrm7pypcfqe
Cognitive and Emotional Contents of Laughter
2014
International Journal of Synthetic Emotions
and the unusual sound features that it presents in our species. ...
Laughter spontaneously appears as an instinctive "gut" reaction; but it is also a cognitive phenomenon (humour), it is social, it has positive-negative valence, and it may wrap itself onto other emotional ...
That would be a vast project beyond the scope of the current article; instead the authors focus on one element of emotion which does not factor very often in the attribution of intelligence: laughter. ...
doi:10.4018/ijse.2014070104
fatcat:af3bhb2vqrh3niodko2x5lg2vy
Individual differences in the way observers perceive humour styles
2019
The European Journal of Humour Research
The current study addresses this research gap by examining the perceptions of Martin et al.'s (2003) four humour styles. ...
Additionally and of particular interest, was whether self-defeating humour and another self-directed humour style, self-deprecating humour, were perceived as two independent humour styles. ...
For the purpose of the current study, two scores were computed. ...
doi:10.7592/ejhr2019.7.2.brown
fatcat:sf2jew54cffndpvitlydsp36bm
Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?
2017
The European Journal of Humour Research
are similar with respect to humour appreciation in TV advertisements. ...
A joint factor analysis of the 3WD scores and humour appreciation in TV ads shows a five-factor structure, with three factors denominating the appreciation of incongruity-resolution humour, nonsense humour ...
Notes 1 To determine scores for INC-RES, NON, and SEX in TV advertisements, we selected clips for aggregation in the five step procedure. ...
doi:10.7592/ejhr2017.5.4.hofmann
fatcat:34fmgdx3yvfltan3fltcfydm6q
Claes Lundsteen—in Memoriam
2004
European Journal of Human Genetics
, engineering, computation and clinical practice. ...
Ultimately, these workshops turned into a Concerted Action in 1988, supported by the European Commission, under Claes's direction. ...
doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201208
fatcat:e4wqttkg4fesfbgbex2cake6fu
Power and Humour in Institutional Talk – A Comparative Analysis
2020
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
The paper aims to identify the way humour is used by the more and less powerful participants in the meetings. ...
The paper aims to investigate the relationship between power and humour in educational setting, namely a high school. ...
(Gheorghe et al . 2009: 57) 'Maria: the accounting department has, even in the case of a fire↓we were told they take their computer under their arm and the accounting department leaves with the computer ...
doi:10.2478/ausp-2020-0017
fatcat:ogphfdhjbza3dd57hlzmueynq4
E=mC^2 for Information and Impact – Novel Theoretical Modelling Concepts in Information Entropy
2022
Zenodo
Information promulgations can have alternating/ direct current (AC-DC), Laplace, and Fourier transformations in their transmission discourse. ...
The equation can be modified with addition of celebrity and humour factors to catalyse the spread of information. Angle corrections can be made for differences in celebrity views. ...
The views expressed in this paper are authors' own. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5953228
fatcat:twzf7darzvhglbmk6pixpaoaei
"All the world's a stage": incongruity humour revisited
2018
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
We hope that the views expressed in this paper will help to steer the humour research away from joke research and help to integrate humour in the design of human-computer interfaces and smart environments ...
Eighteenth and nineteenth century philosophers took interest in humour and, in particular, humorous incongruities. ...
I'm grateful to Google for making many of these old texts available in the public domain. ...
doi:10.1007/s10472-018-9609-7
fatcat:s35asygqkjemdkjzymmagoqkvm
This is funny: on the beneficial role of self-enhancing and affiliative humour in job design
2012
Psicothema
No interactions between humour and the job characteristics were found in the prediction of burnout. ...
Building on positive psychology, the present study aims to address the role of humour in the workplace, and particularly in job design, one of the crucial job aspects contributing to employee well-being ...
The use of humour furthermore Positive Negative Direct to others Direct to oneself Affiliative humour Self-enhancing humour Self-defeating humour Aggressive humour Figure 1 . ...
pmid:22269369
fatcat:kz6gbjomgbdsdfk2imkkts6e7y
Computational estimation of magnetically induced electric fields in a rotating head
2008
Physics in Medicine and Biology
In this paper, the fields induced by different rotational movements of a head in a strong homogeneous magnetic field are computed numerically. ...
Under rotational movement of the head, with a magnetic flux rate of change of 1 T s −1 , the maximum IEEE-averaged electric field and maximum ICNIRPaveraged current density were 337 mV m −1 and 8.84 mA ...
Acknowledgments Financial support received from GETA (Graduate School in Electronics, Telecommunication and Automation) is acknowledged. ...
doi:10.1088/0031-9155/54/2/011
pmid:19098349
fatcat:qxdokcmezvcudmgp2mwpvo5osm
Conversational Implicature, Humour Theory and the Emergence of Humour: A Pragmatic Analysis of Udurawana's Stories in Sri Lanka
2019
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
in order to examine the ways of generating humour in the context of Grice's theory by revealing the types of maxims flouted in the selected sample. ...
'Humour' in the stories has been investigated in many ways while the prominence of the studies has been captured by the pragmatic analyses. ...
The funny aspect or the humour theory that appeared in this situation is incongruity and our attention to violating or flouting maxims to generate humour is taken into another direction through this kind ...
doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.6p.67
fatcat:qy5m2httfzg3nmjs6mdqaqgvne
The accomplishment of nonserious talk in severe speech disability: An examination of recipient uptake and delayed other-initiated repair
2013
Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
This utterance is produced whilst both participants are engaged in a computer related activity and it is this current local activity that Molly utilises in her attempt to understand the utterance's meaning ...
We have yet to consider whether there may be any direct clinical implications arising from this study. ...
doi:10.1558/jircd.v4i1.45
fatcat:nuphdvmccraaddeztbaswpovq4
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