How virtuous is humor? What we can learn from current instruments

Journal of Positive Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 528-539

  Beermann, Ursula ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Humor; Instruments; Questionnaires; Vice; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449413798     PISSN: 17439760     EISSN: 17439779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439760903262859     Document Type: Article

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