Assessing the “humorous temperament”: Construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory — STCI

Humor

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 303-340

  Ruch, Willibald ^a   Köhler, Gabriele ^a   Van Thriel, Christoph ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0000520488     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humr.1996.9.3-4.303     Document Type: Article

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