Humor styles and their relationship to explicit and implicit self-esteem

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 747-750

  Stieger, Stefan ^a   Formann, Anton K ^a   Burger, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Damaged self esteem; Humor styles; Initial Preference Task; Psychological distress; Self defeating humor style

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551610483     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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