How fun are your meetings? Investigating the relationship between humor patterns in team interactions and team performance

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1278-1287

  Lehmann Willenbrock, Nale ^a   Allen, Joseph A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Humor; Interaction patterns; Lag sequential analysis; Team meetings; Team performance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUMOR; INDUSTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925727662     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: 19391854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038083     Document Type: Article

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