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A processing fluency-account of funniness: Running gags and spoiling punchlines

Sascha TopolinskiDepartment of Psychology, Social and Economic Cognition, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 811-820 | Received 25 Jul 2013, Accepted 04 Nov 2013, Published online: 09 Dec 2013

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Benjamin K. Johnson & Judith E. Rosenbaum. (2018) (Don’t) Tell Me How It Ends: Spoilers, Enjoyment, and Involvement in Television and Film. Media Psychology 21:4, pages 582-612.
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David Santos, Maria Stavraki, Beatriz Gandarillas, Ana Cancela & Pablo Briñol. (2018) Interrupting a joke validates thoughts and polarizes attitudes towards a recycling company / La interrupción de un chiste puede potenciar su efecto de validación del pensamiento y cambiar las actitudes hacia una empresa de reciclaje. International Journal of Social Psychology 33:3, pages 529-554.
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William H. Levine, Michelle Betzner & Kevin S. Autry. (2016) The Effect of Spoilers on the Enjoyment of Short Stories. Discourse Processes 53:7, pages 513-531.
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Anna‐Lisa Cohen, Chaim Goldberg, Jonathan Mintz & Elliot Shavalian. (2023) Spoiler alert: How narrative film captures attention. Applied Cognitive Psychology 37:3, pages 612-623.
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Margaret E. Webb, Ruben E. Laukkonen, Simon J. Cropper & Daniel R. Little. (2019) Commentary: Moment of (Perceived) Truth: Exploring Accuracy of Aha! Experiences. The Journal of Creative Behavior 55:2, pages 289-293.
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Caleb Warren, Adam Barsky & A. Peter McGraw. (2020) What Makes Things Funny? An Integrative Review of the Antecedents of Laughter and Amusement. Personality and Social Psychology Review 25:1, pages 41-65.
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Ed O'Brien. (2020) A mind stretched: The psychology of repeat consumption. Consumer Psychology Review 4:1, pages 42-58.
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Jordi Camí, Alex Gomez-Marin & Luis M. Martínez. (2020) On the cognitive bases of illusionism. PeerJ 8, pages e9712.
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Benjamin K. Johnson, Angel Udvardi, Allison Eden & Judith E. Rosenbaum. (2020) Spoilers Go Bump in the Night. Journal of Media Psychology 32:1, pages 14-25.
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Thomas A. Daniel & Jeffrey S. Katz. (2018) Spoilers Affect the Enjoyment of Television Episodes but Not Short Stories. Psychological Reports 122:5, pages 1794-1807.
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Zhihua GAO & Zhongyi LU. (2022) “没有”为什么隐含着“消极情绪”?——否定加工中的情绪表征. Acta Psychologica Sinica 51:2, pages 177-187.
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Edward L. Munnich, Meadhbh I. Foster & Mark T. Keane. (2019) Editors’ Introduction and Review: An Appraisal of Surprise: Tracing the Threads That Stitch It Together. Topics in Cognitive Science 11:1, pages 37-49.
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Fang Tian, Yuling Hou, Wenfeng Zhu, Arne Dietrich, Qinglin Zhang, Wenjing Yang, Qunlin Chen, Jiangzhou Sun, Qiu Jiang & Guikang Cao. (2017) Getting the Joke: Insight during Humor Comprehension – Evidence from an fMRI Study. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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David L. Hu, Lew Lefton & Peter J. Ludovice. (2017) Humour Applied to STEM Education. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 34:3, pages 216-226.
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Brian Gillespie, Mark Mulder & Manja Leib. (2016) Who’s Laughing Now? The Effect of Simulated Laughter on Consumer Enjoyment of Television Comedies and the Laugh-Track Paradox. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 1:4, pages 592-606.
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Sascha Topolinski & Lea Boecker. (2016) Mouth-watering words: Articulatory inductions of eating-like mouth movements increase perceived food palatability. Appetite 99, pages 112-120.
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Marret K. Noordewier, Sascha Topolinski & Eric Van Dijk. (2016) The Temporal Dynamics of Surprise. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 10:3, pages 136-149.
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Sascha Topolinski & Giti Bakhtiari. (2016) Sequential Approach-Avoidance Movements. Social Psychology 47:2, pages 98-117.
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Sascha Topolinski, Giti Bakhtiari & Thorsten M. Erle. (2016) Can I cut the Gordian tnok? The impact of pronounceability, actual solvability, and length on intuitive problem assessments of anagrams. Cognition 146, pages 439-452.
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Sascha Topolinski, Thorsten M. Erle & Rolf Reber. (2015) Necker’s smile: Immediate affective consequences of early perceptual processes. Cognition 140, pages 1-13.
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Thorsten M. Erle & Sascha Topolinski. (2015) Spatial and Empathic Perspective-Taking Correlate on a Dispositional Level. Social Cognition 33:3, pages 187-210.
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Sascha Topolinski, Michael Zürn & Iris K. Schneider. (2015) What's in and what's out in branding? A novel articulation effect for brand names. Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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Sascha Topolinski & Fritz Strack. (2015) Corrugator activity confirms immediate negative affect in surprise. Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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