Humor with backgrounded incongruity: Does more required suspension of disbelief affect humor perception?

Humor

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-185

  Samson, Andrea C ^a,b,c,d   Hempelmann, Christian F ^a,b,c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c RiverGlass Inc   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backgrounded incongruity; Cognitive; Humor; Nonsense

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959722932     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMR.2011.011     Document Type: Article

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