The fear of being laughed at among psychiatric patients

Humor

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 233-251

  Forabosco, Giovannantonio ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^b   Nucera, Pietro ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Ravenna   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fear; Gelotophobia; Laughter; Phobia; Psychiatric patients

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749132612     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMR.2009.011     Document Type: Article

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