Teaching and learning with humor: Experiment and replication

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 5-15

  Ziv, Avner ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0002674085     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220973.1988.10806492     Document Type: Article

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