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,…

Explores the differences between the routines of the female comic and the male comic and concludes that females use self-disparaging humor more often. (MH)

Investigates positive and negative perspectives of self-disparaging humor. (MH)

Recounts a study designed to determine the age at which sex differences first begin to appear and relates various aspects of children's behavior to the level of humor responsiveness. (MH)

Contends that sex differences in response to various types of humor reveal significant personality characteristics. (MH)

Examines the relationship between the level of moral development, (as conceptualized by Piaget), and children's appreciation of humor. (DP)

Discusses a method for assessing attitudes using cartoons as projective devices and suggests that graphical humor might be used successfully in constructing alternative methods for measuring attitudinal ambivalence. (MH)

Examines the replication of a 1970 study and concludes that anti-female bias in humor is still present. (MH)

In the formal settings of universities, all academics regulate themselves constantly, including how and when they laugh. This paper considers the matter of pleasure and women's scholastic and pedagogical work, and how it has come to be understood. The paper explores the idea that pleasure is taken "within reason," drawing on Michel…