Measuring responses to humor: How the testing context affects individuals' reaction to comedy

Humor

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-155

  Martin, G Neil ^a   Sadler, Sharon J ^a   Barrett, Clare E ^a   Beaven, Alison ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comedy; Humor; Laughter; Smiling; Social facilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949232503     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMOR.2008.007     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Blascovitch, Jim, Wendy M. Mendes, Sarah B. Hunter, and Kristen Salomon 1999 Social "facilitation" as challenge and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77, 68-77.
2. Bush, Lauren K., Carol L. Barr, Gregory J. McHugo, and John T. Lanzetta 1989 The effects of facial control and facial mimicry on subjective reactions to comedy routines. Motivation and Emotion 13 (1), 31-52.
3. Butcher, Jennifer, and Cynthia Whissell 1984 Laughter as a function of audience size, sex of the audience and segments of the short film "Duck Soup". Perceptual and Motor Skills 59, 949-950.
4. Chapman, Anthony J. 1973a An electromyographic study of apprehension about evaluation. Psychological Reports 33, 811-814.
5. 1973b Social facilitation of laughter in children. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 9, 528-541.
6. 1974 An electromyographic study of social facilitation: a test of the "mere presence" hypothesis. British Journal of Psychology 65, 123-128.
7. Chapman, Anthony J., and Wendy A. Chapman 1974 Responsiveness in humor: Its dependency upon a companion's humorous smiling and laughter. Journal of Psychology 88, 245-252.
8. Chapman, Anthony J., and Derek S. Wright 1976 Social enhancement of laughter: An experimental analysis of some companion variables. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 21, 201-218.
9. Cohen, J. L. 1980 Social facilitation: audience versus evaluation apprehension effects. Motivation and Emotion 4, 21-33.
10. Cohen, J. L., and J. H. Davis 1973 Effects of audience status, evaluation, and time of action on performance with hidden-word problems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 27, 74-85.
11. Dale, J. Alexander, Mary A. Hudak, and Paula Wasikowski 1991 Effects of dyadic participation and awareness of being monitored on facial action during exposure to humor. Perceptual and Motor Skills 73, 984-986.
12. Ekman, Paul, Richard J Davidson, and William V. Friesen 1990 The Duchenne smile: Emotional expression and brain physiology II. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 58, 542-553.
13. Elliott, E. S., and J. L. Cohen 1981 Social facilitation effects via interpersonal distance. Journal of Social Psychology 114, 237-249.
14. Foot, Hugh C., Anthony J. Chapman, and Jean R. Smith 1977 Friendship and social responsiveness in boys and girls. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 35, 401-411.
15. Freedman, Jonathan L., and Deborah Perlick 1979 Crowding, contagion and laughter. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 15, 295-303.
16. Fridlund, Alan J. 1991 The sociality functions of solitary smiling: potentiation by an implicit audience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 60, 229-240.
17. Gavanski, Igor 1986 Differential sensitivity of humor ratings and mirth responses to cognitive and affective components of the humor response. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 51, 209-214.
18. Geen, Russell G. 1989 Alternative conceptions of social facilitation. In Paulus, P. B. (ed.), Psychology of Group Influence, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 15-51.
19. Guerin, B., and J. M. Innes 1982 Social facilitation and social monitoring: A new look at Zajonc's mere presence hypothesis. British Journal of Social Psychology 21, 7-18.
20. Lampert, Martin D., and Susan M. Ervin-Tripp 1998 Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the 20th century. In Ruch, W. (ed.), The Sense of Humor. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 231-270.
21. Lawson, Timothy J., Brian Downing, and Hank Cetola 1998 An attributional explanation for the effect of audience laughter on perceived funniness. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 20 (4), 243-249.
22. Leventhal, Howard, and Gerald C. Cupchik 1975 The informational and facilitative effects of an audience upon expectation and evaluation of humorous stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 11, 363-380.
23. Malpass, Leslie F., and Eugene D. Fitzpatrick 1959 Social facilitation as a factor in relation to humor. Journal of Social Psychology 50, 295-303.
24. Martin, G. Neil, and Colin D. Gray 1996 The effects of audience laughter on men's and women's responses to humor. Journal of Social Psychology 136 (2), 221-231.
25. Moore, H. T. 1917 Laboratory tests of anger, fear and sex interests. American Journal of Psychology 28, 390-395.
26. Oaksford, Michael, F. Morris, B. Grainger, and J. M. G. Williams 1996 Mood, reasoning, and central executive processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 22 (2), 476-492.
27. Olson, James M. 1992 Self-perception of humor: Evidence for discounting and augmentation effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 62, 369-377.
28. Olson, James M., and Neal J. Roese 1995 The perceived funniness of humorous stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 21, 908-913.
29. Pollio, Howard R., and Charles Swanson 1995 Behavioral and phenomenological analysis of audience reactions to comic performance. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 8, 5-28.
30. Triplett, N. 1898 The dynamogenic factors in peacemaking and competition. Journal of Psychology 9, 507-533.
31. Young, Richard, David Frye, and Margaret Frye 1966 Some are laughing, some are not: Why? Psychological Reports 18, 747-755.
32. Zajonc, Robert B. 1965 Social facilitation. Science 149, 269-274.
33. 1980 Compresence. In Paulus, P. B. (ed.), Psychology of Group Influence. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 35-60.