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Peer reviewedJuni, Samuel – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Psychoanalytic theory predicts that humor preference is a derivative of unresolved childhood conflicts. Analyzed students' (N=104) Rorschach protocols to yield measures of preoedipal fixation. Students ranked jokes from most to least funny. Results showed that the ranking of jokes was a function of the fixation measures for women only. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Aggression, College Students, Higher Education, Humor
Peer reviewedKhoury, Robert M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Observed the ways in which norm formation and social conformity are engaged in the joke setting. Despite the "cautious" operational definition of the convergence concept, the basic finding of convergence nevertheless seems fairly absolute and pertinent to the individual's day-to-day social relations. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Students, Conformity, Convergent Thinking
Changing Patterns in the Response to Humorous Sexual Stimuli: Sex Roles and Expression of Sexuality.
Peer reviewedPrerost, Frank J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1983
Examined the impact of humowere aous sexual stimuli on 120 college students. Results showed the importance of personal sexual experience and enjoyment with sexual expression on the reactions to sexual humor. Sexist ideas within sexual humor were significant factor in influencing female appreciation of sexual jokes. (JAC)
Descriptors: Cartoons, College Students, Higher Education, Humor
