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Lu, Chia-Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
The incongruity-resolution model plays a key role in the cognitive mechanisms of perceived humour. This study employed the incongruity-resolution model to discuss humorous design techniques to help design novices and students understand the influence of various humorous design techniques on perceived humour. First, 260 humorous products currently…
Descriptors: Humor, Design, Cognitive Processes, Graduate Students
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Maria Alice Baraldi; Filippo Domaneschi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities evolve in late adulthood, as well as when difficulties are more likely to arise. The aim of this study is to investigate the decline of pragmatic skills in aging, and to…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Skills, Ability, Aging (Individuals)
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Sharma, Daneshwar – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Students process information in two modes: cognitive and experiential. Case studies and stories are generally used as tools for experiential information processing. This article uses memes as an instructional tool to deliver information for experiential information processing in a public speaking course. The effectiveness of memes as an…
Descriptors: Humor, Visual Aids, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes
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Ellen Droog; Christian Burgers – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Research into the persuasiveness of satirical news has found mixed results. Two possible explanations lie in the lack of clarity about mechanisms underlying the influence of consuming different types of satirical content. In six experiments (N[subscript total] = 3,139), we investigated how (different types of) humorous versus nonhumorous…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, News Reporting, Satire, Humor
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Bay, Dondu Neslihan – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2021
In this research, the playfulness of 4- and 5-years-old 181 children, 100 boys and 81 girls, attending a kindergarten in Turkey, was examined. The research was designed according to relational-correlational survey/research model, one of the quantitative research methods; the data were collected using Personal Information Form and Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play
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Kao, Justine T.; Levy, Roger; Goodman, Noah D. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Humor plays an essential role in human interactions. Precisely what makes something funny, however, remains elusive. While research on natural language understanding has made significant advancements in recent years, there has been little direct integration of humor research with computational models of language understanding. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, Sentences, Correlation
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Topp, Kieren; Thai, Michael; Hryciw, Deanne H. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The blending of entertainment and education is often used as a mechanism for communicating science to the general public. Key to dissemination of scientific information is cognitive engagement of the audience with the content. The authors describe a study investigating the relationship between entertaining videos and cognitive engagement of the…
Descriptors: Climate, Video Technology, Films, Popular Culture
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Canestrari, Carla; Bianchi, Ivana – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
According to the cognitive approach to humor, the comprehension of humorous texts implies recognizing an incongruity and resolving it. This article studies whether the cognitive process involved in the recognition of incongruity is affected by the conditions that make contrariety evident or only analytically recognizable in the perceptual domain.…
Descriptors: Humor, Cognitive Processes, Recognition (Psychology), Stimuli
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Strick, Madelijn; Holland, Rob W.; van Baaren, Rick B.; van Knippenberg, Ad – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
Three experiments illustrate that humor in advertisements prevents the development of negative brand associations due to resistance. Previous research on humor in advertising suggested that humor can counter negative responses during ad processing, but less is known about the effect of humor on the development of negative brand associations in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Affective Behavior, Humor, Organizations (Groups)
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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2015
Instructors' use of humor is generally a positive influence on student outcomes. However, examinations of humor have found that specific types of messages may not impact, or may even reverse, its positive effect. Instructional humor processing theory (IHPT) has been used to explain how humor impacts student learning. The current study sought to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Educational Theories, Predictor Variables
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Kopytin, Alexander; Lebedev, Alexey – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
This article presents findings from a study of the therapeutic effects of group art therapy in a psychotherapy unit of a Russian hospital for war veterans. The researchers randomly assigned 112 veterans being treated for stress-related disorders to an experimental group (art therapy) and a control group. The emphasis was on the use of humor in the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Veterans
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Loizou, Eleni – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This was a two-phase qualitative study that investigated the humorous aspects of humorous photographs young children took in their school and home environment, which were examined in the context of the theory of the absurd and the empowerment theory. The participants in the study were six children--three boys and three girls--between the ages of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Photography, Interviews, Family Environment
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Samson, Andrea C.; Hegenloh, Michael – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
The present paper aims to investigate whether individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) show global humor processing deficits or whether humor comprehension and appreciation depends on stimulus characteristics. Non-verbal visual puns, semantic and Theory of Mind cartoons were rated on comprehension, funniness and the punchlines were explained. AS…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Comparative Analysis, Semantics, Asperger Syndrome
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Mitchell, Heather H.; Graesser, Arthur C.; Louwerse, Max M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of various constraints on the processing of jokes. Participants read humorous jokes and nonhumorous alternatives of the jokes, which were presented in 3 conditions that manipulated discourse context (comedy, political, and control). In Experiment 1, participants rated the funniness of texts and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Eye Movements, Humor, Cognitive Processes
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Puche-Navarro, Rebeca – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Two experiments examined pictorial humor as an unusual but legitimate way to approach the study of children's representational activity and the transition from implicit to explicit knowledge. In both experiments, the participants were 3- and 4-year-old children. Experiment 1 studied the understanding of two pictorial jokes using two conditions,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Humor, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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