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Humor by Violating an Existing Expectancy

Lambert Deckers Ball State University, USA
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John Devine Ball State University, USA
Pages 107-110 | Received 03 Mar 1981, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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Stephen Taylor, Jane Simpson & Claire Hardy. (2022) The Use of Humor in Employee-to-Employee Workplace Communication: A Systematic Review With Thematic Synthesis. International Journal of Business Communication, pages 232948842110699.
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Kai Kaspar, Anna Jurisch & Maren Schneider. (2015) Embodied Cognition and Humor: The Impact of Weight Sensations on Humor Experience and the Moderating Role of Gender. Current Psychology 35:3, pages 377-385.
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Alina Haliliuc. (2015) What Is So Funny about The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu ? . The Journal of Popular Culture 48:1, pages 154-167.
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Kavous Ardalan. 2015. Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education. Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education 69 96 .
Kristen Aspevig. (2011) Death Comes to Town, Irreverent Humour, and Accessibility for the Blind and Low-Visioned. Canadian Journal of Communication 36:3, pages 359-376.
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Jennifer Marmo. (2010) Using Humor to Move Away From Abjection. Qualitative Inquiry 16:7, pages 588-595.
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Kristina L. Matarazzo, Amanda M. Durik & Molly L. Delaney. (2010) The effect of humorous instructional materials on interest in a math task. Motivation and Emotion 34:3, pages 293-305.
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Hicham Benjelloun. (2009) An empirical investigation of the use of humor in university classrooms. Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues 2:4, pages 312-322.
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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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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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Robert Westwood. (2016) Comic Relief: Subversion and Catharsis in Organizational Comedic Theatre. Organization Studies 25:5, pages 775-795.
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Stephen R. Schmidt & Alan R. Williams. (2001) Memory for humorous cartoons. Memory & Cognition 29:2, pages 305-311.
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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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Philip G. Zimbardo. 1999. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Volume 31. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Volume 31 345 486 .
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