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Humor and the Incongruity Hypothesis

Lambert Deckers Ball State University
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Philip Kizer Ball State University
Pages 215-218 | Received 14 Apr 1975, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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Timothy Budden, James A. Dimmock, Brett Smith, Michael Rosenberg, Mark R. Beauchamp & Ben Jackson. (2022) Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 14:7, pages 1098-1112.
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Spencer Hazel & Kristian Mortensen. (2017) The classroom moral compass – participation, engagement and transgression in classroom interaction. Classroom Discourse 8:3, pages 214-234.
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JohnC. Meyer. (1997) Humor in member narratives: Uniting and dividing at work. Western Journal of Communication 61:2, pages 188-208.
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Lambert Deckers & Jo Anne Winters. (1986) Surprise and Humor in Response to Discrepantly Short and/or Heavy Stimuli in a Psychophysical Task. The Journal of General Psychology 113:1, pages 57-63.
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Lambert Deckers, Jerry Edington & Gary VanCleave. (1981) Mirth as a Function of Incongruities in Judged and Unjudged Dimensions of Psychophysical Tasks. The Journal of General Psychology 105:2, pages 225-233.
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Lambert Deckers & John Devine. (1981) Humor by Violating an Existing Expectancy. The Journal of Psychology 108:1, pages 107-110.
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Neha Reddy Bogireddy, Smriti Suresh & Sunny Rai. (2023) I’m out of breath from laughing! I think? A dataset of COVID-19 Humor and its toxic variants. I’m out of breath from laughing! I think? A dataset of COVID-19 Humor and its toxic variants.
Rosalind Buckton-Tucker. 2022. World Englishes, Global Classrooms. World Englishes, Global Classrooms 275 289 .
Stuart S. Miller, Conor J. O'Dea, Tiffany J. Lawless & Donald A. Saucier. (2019) Savage or satire: Individual differences in perceptions of disparaging and subversive racial humor. Personality and Individual Differences 142, pages 28-41.
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Kelsi Matwick & Keri MatwickKelsi Matwick & Keri Matwick. 2019. Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network. Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network 79 118 .
Zhiyi Zhang & Xiaobing Jin. (2018) Perceiving Humor in Traditional Chinese Peking Opera. Chinese Semiotic Studies 14:3, pages 371-391.
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. 2018. The Psychology of Humor. The Psychology of Humor 373 510 .
Scott Sterling & Shawn Loewen. (2015) The occurrence of teacher-initiated playful LREs in a Spanish L2 classroom. System 53, pages 73-83.
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Elena Hoicka. 2014. Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition. Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition 219 238 .
Masanobu Takahashi & Tomoyoshi Inoue. (2009) The effects of humor on memory for non-sensical pictures. Acta Psychologica 132:1, pages 80-84.
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Elena Hoicka, Sarah Jutsum & Merideth Gattis. (2010) Humor, Abstraction, and Disbelief. Cognitive Science 32:6, pages 985-1002.
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Robert Epstein & Veronica R. Joker. (2017) A threshold theory of the humor response. The Behavior Analyst 30:1, pages 49-58.
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. 2007. The Psychology of Humor. The Psychology of Humor 373 420 .
Paul Paolucci & Margaret Richardson. (2006) Dramaturgy, humor, and criticism: How Goffman reveals Seinfeld's critique of American culture. Humor – International Journal of Humor Research 19:1.
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Robert Westwood. (2016) Comic Relief: Subversion and Catharsis in Organizational Comedic Theatre. Organization Studies 25:5, pages 775-795.
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John C. Meyer. (2000) Humor as a Double-Edged Sword: Four Functions of Humor in Communication. Communication Theory 10:3, pages 310-331.
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Glenn E. Weisfeld. (1993) The adaptive value of humor and laughter. Ethology and Sociobiology 14:2, pages 141-169.
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Charles M. Vance. (1987) A comparative study on the use of humor in the design of instruction. Instructional Science 16:1, pages 79-100.
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Lambert Deckers & Debra Hricik. (1984) Orienting and humor responses: A synthesis. Motivation and Emotion 8:3, pages 183-204.
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Lambert Deckers & Debra Salais. (1983) Humor as a negatively accelerated function of the degree of incongruity. Motivation and Emotion 7:4, pages 357-363.
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Paul E. McGhee. 1983. Handbook of Humor Research. Handbook of Humor Research 13 37 .
Lambert Deckers, Steven Jenkins & Eric Gladfelter. (1977) Incongruity versus tension relief. Motivation and Emotion 1:3, pages 261-272.
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Lawrence La Fave & Roger Mannell. (1976) Does Ethnic Humor Serve Prejudice?. Journal of Communication 26:3, pages 116-123.
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