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Elisa Gironzetti; Salvatore Attardo; Lucy Pickering – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study investigates the function of smiling intensity as a nondiscrete marker of humor in conversation. The smiling intensity of participants in eight conversational dyads was measured relative to the occurrence of humorous and nonhumorous events in the conversation. A relationship was found between higher smiling intensity and the occurrence…
Descriptors: Humor, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Affective Behavior
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Matthews, Jacqueline K.; Hancock, Jeffrey T.; Dunham, Phillip J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Four experiments were conducted to assess the roles of politeness and humor in the asymmetry of affect observed in verbal irony production. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants rated different replies (ironic, literal, or "no response") made to hypothetical scenarios for their politeness and humor, respectively. Participants in Experiment 3 were…
Descriptors: Humor, Figurative Language, Experiments, Affective Behavior