This Handbook provides new perspectives on humour from transdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humour as a resource from different socio-cultural and psychological viewpoints and brings together authors from different cultures, social contexts and countries. The book will enable researchers and practitioners alike to unlock new research findings which give new directions for contemporary and future humour research. By employing transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives, the volume further discusses humour in regard to different cultural and political contexts, humour over the lifespan, in therapy and counselling, in pedagogical settings, in medicine and the workspace. The contributions also highlight the connections between humour and the COVID-19 pandemic and promise new inspiring insights. Researchers, practitioners and students in the fields of industrial and organisational psychology, positive psychology, organisational studies, future studies, health and occupational science and therapy, emotion sciences, management, leadership and human resource management will find the contributions highly topical, insightful and applicable to practice. Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, vocational and civic education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation. Claude-Helene Mayer (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is Professor in I/O Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Adjunct Professor at the Europa Universitat Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
1. Humour as a Resource: Psychological, Cultural and Social Perspectives -- Part I Intersections of Humour and Technology in Human Interaction -- 2. Investigating the Internal Cohesion of Meme Cycles: How Many (Sub)cycles Can Be Generated by a Memetic Drift? -- 3. Should Technology Be More Fun(ny)? Leveraging Humor to Improve User Acceptance and Enjoyment of Social Robots and Virtual Agents -- Part II Humour as a Social and Cultural Construct: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Implications -- 4. Humour in People with Handicaps: A Systematic Review -- 5. Predicting Self-Esteem Using Humor Styles: A Cross-Cultural Study -- 6. The Use of Humour to Deal with Uncomfortable Moments in Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Approach -- 7. Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration: A Case Study of Adolescent German Turkish Descendants in Germany -- 8. The Position of Humour in Social Crisis: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at? -- 9. Humour as Cultural Capital in Transitions -- 10. Nigerian Cultural Concept of Humour and Its Creative Use as a Coping Strategy -- 11. Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study -- Part III Humour in Geopolitical and Cultural Landscapes: Tensions and Transgressions -- 12. Ukrainian Humor in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Cognitive and Stylistic Features -- 13. Humor as a Defense Mechanism: Dismantling Holocaust Symbols and Icons in Israeli Culture -- 14. Geopolitics of Humor and Development in Nepal and Afghanistan -- 15. Humour and Politics: Linguistic Features of Humour Construction -- 16. White Laughter, Black Pain? On the Comic and Parodic Enactment of Racial-Colonial Stereotypes -- Part IV Workplace Humour: Strategies, Outcomes, and Adaptation in Modern Work Environments -- 17. Risky Business: Humour, Hierarchy, and Harmony in New Zealand and South Korean Workplaces -- 18. Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work, a Positive Psychology Perspective -- 19. Humour as a Coping Strategy of Employees in Remote Workspaces and Social Media Communication During the Covid-19 -- Part V Humour Across the Lifespan: Interpersonal and Developmental Perspectives -- 20. Humour as a Resource for Children -- 21. Humour in Romantic Relationships -- 22. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Humor Appreciation and Function Across the Lifespan -- 23. 'West of Hollywood': Humor as Reparation in the Life and Work of Walter Becker -- Part VI Educational Frameworks of Humor: Innovations and Applications in Teaching and Learning -- 24. The Role of Humour Competency Training in English Language Teaching -- 25. Humour in Adult Education -- 26. Humour in Mathematics Teaching: A Study in Portugal and Spain -- Part VII Healing and Well-Being Through Humour: Psychological Insights and Applications -- 27. The Positive Effect of Humour and Amateur Dubbing on Hospitalised Adolescents -- 28. The Covid-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity for Positive Psychology to Promote a Wider-Ranging Definition of Humour and Laughter -- 29. On the Relationships Between Humour, Stress and Flow Experience: Introducing the Humour-Flow Model -- 30. Working with Humour in Psychotherapy.
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Part 1 Humour in Cultural Contexts -- 2 Humor and the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction Piotr Pluta -- 3 Predicting Self-Esteem using Humor Styles -- 4 Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration -- 5 The Position of Humour in Social Crisis: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at? Ayşe Aslı Sezgin -- 6 Humour as a Positive Cultural Capital in Transitions Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar -- 7 Nigeria Cultural Concept of Humour and its Use as a Coping Strategy -- 8 Recontextualising Recession in Nigeria: Pragma-discursive Ex-amination of Online-based Recession Humour -- 9 Humor as a Defense Mechanism: Dismantling Holocaust Sym-bols and Icons in Israeli Culture.-10 Geopolitics of Humor and Development in Nepal and Afghani-stan Jennifer Fluri and Rupak Shrestha -- 11 Humour and Laughter in the Political Context Maria Belén Alvarado Ortega -- 12 Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work, a Positive Psychology Perspective -- 13 Humour as a Coping Mechanism in Remote Working Spaces during the Covid19 Lockdown Claude-Hélène Mayer -- 14 The Value of Humor in Romantic Relationships. 15 Using Humor to Navigate Traumatic Life Events -- 16 The Benefit of a Lifespan Developmental Approach for Under-standing Humor Appreciation and Function Across Cultures.-17 Humor in Psychiatry: Lessons From Neuroscience, Psycho-pathology and Treatment Research -- 18 Humorous Amateur Dubbing in the Ward. The Positive Effect of Non-professional Dubbing on Hospitalised Children.-19 Is it Time for Positive Psychology to be More Positive about the Wide-Ranging Potential of Humour and Laughter? -- 20 Humour in Psychotherapy: A Trajectory Through the Times -- 21 "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." - Humour as a Resource in Life Crises -- 22 Humour in Teaching Materials for Teaching Spanish as a For-eign Language: Analysis and Proposals -- 23 Humour as a Resource in Adult Education - Results of a Survey in Adult Education from a Positive Psychology 2.0 Perspective -- 24 Humour in Mathematics Teaching: a study in Portugal and Spain -- 25 An Empirical Examination of Walter Becker, in which Psycho-biography, Positive Psychology -- 26 Examining the Intersection of Humor and Creativity as the Key to Perseverance in Ideation -- 27 Outlook Elisabeth Vanderheiden & Claude-Hélène Mayer.
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tweets -- List of Tables -- 1: Editorial: The Handbook of Humour Research-Psychological, Cultural and Social Perspectives -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Contemporary Humour Research -- 1.3 Insights Into the Volume's Content and Its Contribution -- References -- Part I: Humour in Cultural Contexts -- 2: Predicting Self-Esteem Using Humor Styles: A Cross-Cultural Study -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Humor Styles -- 2.1.2 Humor Styles and Well-being -- 2.1.3 The Relationship Between Humor Styles and Self-Esteem -- 2.1.4 Present Study -- 2.2 Method -- 2.2.1 Participants and Procedure -- 2.2.2 Materials -- 2.2.3 Statistical Analyses -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Descriptive Results and Correlations -- 2.3.2 Demographic Variables -- 2.3.3 Predicting Self-Esteem -- 2.4 Discussion -- 2.4.1 Self-Esteem and Humor -- 2.4.2 Limitations and Future Directions -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3: The Use of Humour to Deal with Uncomfortable Moments in Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Approach -- 3.1 Introduction: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour -- 3.2 Methodological Approach -- 3.2.1 Four-Dimensional Model -- Dimension 1: The Speaker/Target/Recipient Interplay -- Dimension 2: The Language Dimension -- Dimension 3: The Different Pragmatic Functions -- Dimension 4: The Interactional Dimension -- 3.2.2 Data -- 3.3 Overall Trends -- 3.4 Representative Examples -- 3.4.1 Self-Disclosure (Inglorious Moments) -- 3.4.2 Embarrassing Questions -- 3.4.3 Culture-Specific Examples -- 3.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- 3.5.1 Dimension 1: The Speaker/Target/Recipient Interplay -- 3.5.2 Dimension 2: The Language Dimension -- 3.5.3 Dimension 3: The Different Pragmatic Functions -- 3.5.4 Dimension 4: The Interactional Dimension.
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