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Humor

Works consisting of jokes and facetiae relating to a subject.
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2008
Review
2008
Happiness and Humor Group Promotes Life Satisfaction for Senior Center Participants
ABSTRACT The impact of positive psychological attitudes on physical health and healthy aging has been well documented through… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Emotions and the body in Russian and English
The goal of the present paper is to examine Wierzbicka?s (1992, 1998a, 1999) claims that the connection between emotions and the… 
2002
2002
Religiousness, Religious Fundamentalism, and Quest as Predictors of Humor Creation
Theory and research on humor as well as on religion, focused on related personality traits, cognitive structures, and social… 
2001
2001
Asperger's disorder in the emergency psychiatric setting.
Review
1990
Review
1990
Nurses respond to Hurricane Hugo victims' disaster stress.
1989
1989
Understanding what is hidden. Shame in sexual abuse.
Review
1986
Review
1986
Therapeutic uses of humor.
This paper examines psychological aspects of humor, leading into a review of the role of humor in psychotherapy. Constructive and… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Is Laughter the Best Medicine?: A Study of the Effects of Humor on Perceived Pain and Affect of Humor on Perceived Pain and Affect
This paper presents a study of the effects of humor on affect and perceived pain in elderly residents of a long-term care… 
1973
1973
Humor judgments as a function of identification classes: Canadian vs. American.
Summary The present experiment tests Hobbes' superiority theory of humor in relation to identification classes (a replacement for… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
The anterior chamber cleavage syndrome.
There are few ophthalmologists who combine so happily as does Edwin B. Dunphy the attributes necessary for a professorship in a… 
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