Prejudice-relevant correlates of humor temperaments and humor styles

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 546-549

  Hodson, Gordon ^a   MacInnis, Cara C ^a   Rush, Jonathan ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humor styles; Humor temperament; Individual differences; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954212738     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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