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Ning Zhu; Ruth Filik – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be either literal or sarcastic criticism and the speaker had equal, higher, or lower social status compared to the recipient. Comments were rated on degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Social Status, Negative Attitudes
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Hong Zhu; Siqi Hu; Zhizai Dai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The impact of aggressive humor on workplace dynamics has been extensively examined; however, its implications for university students remain underexplored. Drawing on frustration--aggression theory, this study aims to uncover the consequences of peer-aggressive humor and its relationship with cyberbullying behavior. We employed a 2 (peer…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Humor, Aggression
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Chaudry, Izram – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
This paper focuses on the ways in which Islamophobia operates within a university environment and how it is impacting the everyday experiences for a sample of British Muslim students. Qualitative methods were adopted to interview a select of participants attending a Russell Group institution located in Northern England. The findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Islam, Fear, Educational Experience, College Students
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Barthelemy, Ramón S.; McCormick, Melinda; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women's underrepresentation in physics and astronomy. The issue of sexism in physics and astronomy has not been thoroughly explored in the physics education literature and there is currently no clear language for discussing sexism in the field.…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Physics
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Cragun, Ryan T.; Blyde, Victoria L.; Sumerau, J. E.; Mann, Marcus; Hammer, Joseph H. – Journal of College and Character, 2016
Prior research has suggested the possibility of marginalization of religious students on college campuses and the marginalization of nonreligious individuals in society more generally. In this article, the authors examine perceived marginalization of religious and nonreligious college students on and off a college campus in the southeastern United…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Campuses, Humor, Aggression
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Aydin, Aydan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Teacher candidates who will soon be responsible for educating the future generations should possess certain characteristics. Specific teacher candidates should have specific characteristics taken into consideration: pre-school and primary teacher candidates should be seen as role models by younger students; psychological…
Descriptors: Humor, Preservice Teachers, Multiple Regression Analysis, Anxiety