Stop laughing! Humor perception with and without expressive suppression

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 510-524

  Korb, Sebastian ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a   Samson, Andrea C ^b   Delplanque, Sylvain ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; EMG; Emotion regulation; Expressive suppression; Humor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864648550     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2012.667573     Document Type: Article

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