The influence of listening to humor on creativity tests of adolescents is investigated. It was found that those adolescents who listened to the record performed significantly better on a creativity test than control groups. (Author/DEP)

This study examined the role of conceptual tempo in 4th graders' comprehension and appreciation of verbal jokes containing various types of linguistic ambiguity. (JMB)

Suggests that humor rates a place in the curriculum. Presents a bibliography of humorous books, categorized according to age and the developmental stage of humor. (JM)

Provides a light-hearted checklist to be used by assistant principals to evaluate when they have settled into the job. (MD)

The study examined the humor used by nine older adolescent and adult autistic subjects participating in a social skills group. Participants in the designated joke time told jokes which were almost all riddles, many of them preriddles and having lexical and phonological ambiguity. (Author/DB)

Discusses the relationship between doublespeak and humor in the works of George Orwell, W.H. Auden, Doris Lessing, and others. Suggests that one of the most effective responses to doublespeak is humor, a response which acknowledges doublespeak's incongruities and laughs at them. (ARH)

Discusses topics for humorous feature stories dealing with significant questions that confront teenagers and can increase reader interest. (SRT)

Demonstrates the impracticality of imposing rigorous definitions on the various stages of the writing process and the ineffectiveness of requiring students to adhere to strict writing strategies. (SRT)

Describes a study that analyzed and described humorous productions of deaf children and the reaction of other deaf children to those productions. One finding was that primarily verbal humor was appreciated more by older children with hearing parents; humor characterized by sign complexity, by children with deaf parents. (SED)

A mock interview with the coach of a fictitious football team about the reasons for and effects of using process orientation as a coaching technique. (CRH)

By highlighting the dreadful and avoiding the droll, nonfiction presents an unbalanced picture of the world and deprives readers of the benefits humor could contribute. Humor is needed in literature because it ventilates or disrupts oppressive conditions, it provides a different lens from which to view reality, and it provides hope, pleasure, and…

Excerpted from Never Tease a Dinosaur'' (1961), this tongue-in-cheek account focuses on the practical workings of democracy in a classroom, democracy as practiced by children. (JB)

A tongue-in-cheek proposal suggesting that citizens of New Hampshire (1) increase their smoking; (2) raise their alcohol consumption; and (3) double their bets and number of sweepstake tickets in order to increase annual revenues badly needed for public schools, State hospitals, and the University. (Author/JN)

These results may indicate that high-curiosity children seek more when they read and thus are able to see small absurdities. (Authors)

Author discusses the importance of humor and suggests ways to bring laughter into the classroom. (CB)