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Direct linkBolkan, San; Griffin, Darrin J.; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2018
This study was conducted to examine the impact of integrated humor on direct measures of students' ability to retain and transfer information from educational lessons. In two experiments, participants were randomly exposed to either a lesson with humorous examples or standard examples and were subsequently asked to take tests on the material. Data…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Scores, Cognitive Ability
