Browsing by Subject "humor"
Now showing items 1-10 of 10
-
(2012-02-14)Racism persists individually and institutionally in the U.S. and race-based comedy prevails in media, accepted by diverse audiences as jokes. Media priming and Social Identity Theory theoretically ground this two-part ...
-
(2010-07-14)Many scholars have claimed that humor is not powerful enough to bring about social change. However, this study argues that humor is a pervasive form of critique used in America, and is worthy of being examined. With the ...
-
(2013-02-18)The United States has deployed American soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq for over a decade, often sending its soldiers for a second or third tour. The soldiers’ combat experience has changed dramatically since previous ...
-
(Oxford University Press, 2001)This is an overview of theories of humor's adaptive significance.
-
Making Sense and Making Fun: Humor in the Context of Situational Meaning Making and Global Meaning (2015-04-24)Humor is a multifaceted construct that is generally regarded as a positive emotional experience positively associated with well-being. Despite this generally accepted relationship, empirical research on humor and meaning ...
-
(2018-05-18)Many Mexican American adolescents experience a unique set of cultural stressors, which can negatively impact adaptational outcomes. Research on stress and coping suggests that the link between a stressor and adaptational ...
-
(Routledge, 2017)Excerpt: "Humor both exposes and disrupts the usual ways of using language. It also disrupts the rigidity of conventional ways of thinking, for it plays not only with the rules of language but also with the rules of logic. ...
-
(2011-10-21)Past research concerning work and family has largely been from traditional, white-collar settings and has only taken into consideration the perceptions of the employees' experiences with regard to the relationship between ...
-
(2021-04-16)This dissertation considers how contemporary satirical works by Black artists levy a substantive critique of white supremacy by exposing the illogic of “post-race” rhetoric popularized during the Obama era. “Post-race” is ...
-
(1997)This study examines gendered differences in perception of humor functions in 311 male and female college students. Subjects ratings on three different test instruments were obtained: Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale ...