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Eskidemir Meral, Seda; Koçer, Hale – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
Knowing humor development can be rather beneficial in terms of providing opportunities to better know children and evaluate their development. This study aimed to explore the process of humor development in preschool and primary school children in line with McGhee's humor development theory. The study employed a single screening model,…
Descriptors: Humor, Individual Development, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
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Wang, Zhenlin; Wang, Lamei – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
To successfully pull a practical joke on someone, children need to understand that their victims do not know what they themselves know, be able to intentionally manipulate others' beliefs, and maintain a straight face to safeguard the integrity of the joke. This study examined the relationship between children's developing theory of mind (ToM),…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Self Control, Victims, Humor
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Tassell, Janet Lynne; Novak, Elena; Kessler, Bruce – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2019
"Operation Comics" is a series of mathematics comic books for 4th-6th grades that was implemented with 142 elementary school students to investigate the effects of an "Operation Comics" books intervention on student mathematics and comic book attitudes using the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (Tapia, 1996; Tapia &…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Cartoons, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Glenwright, Melanie; Huyder, Vanessa – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Incongruity between a positive statement and a negative context is a cue to verbal irony. Two studies examined whether school-age children and adults recognized that listeners require knowledge of context to detect irony. Specifically, the studies investigated whether participants could inhibit their own context knowledge to appropriately gauge…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Cues, Verbal Communication, Theory of Mind