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Showing 1 to 20 of 498 for “"humor"”.
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Humor Me
Humor and satire.
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Dimensions of Humor: The Production and Appreciation of Humor by Deaf Children
… to analyze and describe both the productive humor of deaf children and the humor appreciated by them. Two groups of deaf children from the same state residential school for the deaf served as subjects. The first group, involved in the production phase, contained 28 subjects. These subjects …
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The educative potential of humor
… dissertation explores the educative potential of humor through the lens of the concept of incongruity. Drawing on two definitions of humor grounded in the Incongruity Theory of humor, I argue humor is educative in both instrumental and existential ways. Drawing on literature in philosophy, …
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Hydrodynamics of aqueous humor outflow
… pathologic increase in the resistance to aqueous humor outflow from the eye. Currently, the physiological and ultrastructural bases for the generation of aqueous humor outflow resistance remain unclear in both the normal and glaucomatous eye, although experimental evidence suggests that the …
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Virginia Woolf's Interpolated Fiction and Humor
… of her nonfiction works, and which included humor in the process.
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Musical Humor and Beethoven's Symphonic Scherzi
… will examine the lasting effects of musical humor, exemplified by the symphonic Scherzi of Beethoven. In toying with expectations derived from established Classical Period models, Beethoven helped change formal and structural traditions. This change is apparent in the compositional choices …
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Use Of Humor And Relationship Intimacy
<p>Humor is a unique social interaction that is ubiquitous in everyday life. Humor can serve a number of functions, including ones that may either enhance or detract from social intimacy. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between different uses of humor and intimacy in …
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Nabokov’s humor: the play of consciousness
… later stages, is thoroughly and multifariously humorous, with individual works incorporating large numbers of jokes to tremendous effect, to the point that enjoyment of Nabokov 's art is to some extent indistinguishable from engagement with his humor. Why is Nabokov 's art so robustly funny? …
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Wit, witticisms and humor of Plautus
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Gender effects of sexual humor in advertising
… us, for lack of better terminology, differently. Humor has its own differing effects. Whereas some people may laugh so hard from a joke that their eyes may begin to tear, others may be offended and insulted at the very same joke, or may not find it funny at all. Humor is very popular in …
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Preventing and Repairing Ego Depletion Through Humor
… in reducing ego depletion is the use of humor, specifically the viewing of humorous videos following an ego-depleting task. However, prevention of ego depletion using humor prior to an ego-depleting task has not been examined. In the current study, a humorous video was used in an attempt …
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A Study of Southern Humor: 1865-1913
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A Leader, a Follower, and Some Humor Walk into a Meta-Analysis: A Review of Positive and Negative Leader Humor
<p>Although leader humor is a growing research topic, there are still unaddressed issues surrounding this topic. In particular, there is disagreement surrounding the conceptualizations of positive and negative leader humor, conflicting theoretical predictions and empirical findings on the effects …
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