Cognitive Aspects of Humour in Social Interaction: A Model and Some Linguistic Data

Giles, Howard; Bourhis, Richard Y.; Gadfield, Nicholas J.; Davies, Graham; Davies, Anthony

doi:10.4324/9780203789469-8

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“…For instance, a humorous individual shows caring toward other people’s emotions by engaging in timely humorous activities that effectively alleviate their stress (Druskat & Wolff, 2001). By inducing laughter, tension is relieved and the atmosphere is energized (Berlyne, 1972; Giles, Bourhis, Gadfield, Davies, & Davies, 1976). Moreover, Barbour (1998) suggested that leaders can use humor to facilitate follower learning and creativity because humorous leaders can influence the behavioral norms by fostering a more open environment that encourage individuals to be themselves (Romero & Pescosolido, 2008).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humor as a Relationship Lubricant: The Implications of Leader Humor on Transformational Leadership Perceptions and Team Performance

Mao

Chiang

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

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In this article, drawing on leader categorization theory, we examined the influencing processes of team leaders' humor on their teams' performance. Using a time-lagged study, including 244 leaders and 815 followers in a manufacturing firm in Northern China, we found that leaders' humor is positively related to subordinates' perceptions of transformational leadership, which in turn, has a positive effect on the team's performance. In addition, we found that the relationship conflict between a team leader and his or her team members moderates the positive, indirect effect of leader humor on team performance through subordinates' transformational leadership perceptions. When the relationship conflict between the leader and his or her team members is high, leader's humor becomes more relevant to subordinates' perceptions of leader's transformational leadership, and therefore exerts a stronger positive influence on team performance. The model developed in this study furthered the current understandings on leader humor and its usefulness in practical settings.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humor as a Relationship Lubricant: The Implications of Leader Humor on Transformational Leadership Perceptions and Team Performance

Mao

Chiang

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

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“…This study’s findings suggest that age-related humor, when accompanied by a larger ecology characterized by disengagement from communicating about other aspects of aging, may indeed be detrimental to the realization of well-being for young adults in this formative period of the life span. Future researchers might consider employing discourse analysis and other methods that examine the actual enactment of age-related humor through language and nonverbal cues (see Giles, 2019; Giles, Bourhis, Gadfield, Davies, & Davies, 1976).…”

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The Role of Grandchildren’s Own Age-Related Communication and Accommodation From Grandparents in Predicting Grandchildren’s Well-Being

Bernhold

Giles

2019

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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This study examined how the accommodative environments experienced from grandparents and grandchildren’s own age-related communication are indirectly associated with grandchildren’s life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, and loneliness, via grandchildren’s self-efficacy with respect to aging. The communication experienced from grandparents was classified as accommodative, ambivalent, and mixed-accommodative chatter. Grandchildren were classified into engaged, disengaged, bantering, and disengaged-joking profiles based on their own age-related communication. Grandchildren who experienced accommodative chatter were likely to be engaged and disengaged communicators about age-related issues; grandchildren who experienced mixed-accommodative chatter were likely to be bantering communicators about age-related issues. Relative to engaged communicators, disengaged-joking communicators demonstrated lower life satisfaction, more depressive symptoms, and greater loneliness, via lower self-efficacy with respect to aging. Patterns of accommodation and nonaccommodation from grandparents may place grandchildren on specific trajectories for communicating about age, and grandchildren’s own communication may be consequential for well-being even at relatively young periods of the life span.

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“…The second approach is that an individual is aroused to such an uncomfortable state by a joke or a situation as it develops that the humorous punchline or ending, and therefore the removal of the discomfort, causes pleasure and laughter. As Giles, Bourhis, Gadfield, Davies & Davies (1976) theorized, failure to perceive or comprehend the humor, and thus failure to relieve the discomfort would elicit frustration. Leaders must therefore draw the fine line between these approaches as they integrate the types and approach of humor into their leadership styles within higher educational administration.…”

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“…Humor serve the function of gaining approval. If others can be made to laugh, a pleasurable experience, that may dispose them to evaluate the joker's character and viewpoints more favorably (Giles et al 1976). Scogin & Pollio (1980) determined that humor is used to express appreciative or positive feelings.…”

Section: A Functional Perspective Of Humor In Communication and Tasksmentioning

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Utilizing Humor to Enhance Leadership Styles in Higher Education Administration

Grace-Odeleye

Santiago

2019

IJELM

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This review examined the literature addressing humor as a potential trait that may enhance leadership styles in higher educational administration. It provides an overview of current humor research from several disciplines of major contemporary leadership theories and styles in higher educational administration and develop and propose a theoretical link between humor as functional management communication for enhancement to other leadership characteristics. The framework developed in this analysis offer a suitable range of humor and its implications for leadership and leadership development in university environments for more effective leadership competencies to manage the multi-dimensional intricacies and practicalities. Additionally, the review provides strategic insights, and practical ways of incorporation of humor into leadership styles in higher education administration along with suggestions for further empirical exploration on relationships of humor and leadership effectiveness.

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Cognitive Aspects of Humour in Social Interaction: A Model and Some Linguistic Data

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

Humor as a Relationship Lubricant: The Implications of Leader Humor on Transformational Leadership Perceptions and Team Performance

Humor as a Relationship Lubricant: The Implications of Leader Humor on Transformational Leadership Perceptions and Team Performance

The Role of Grandchildren’s Own Age-Related Communication and Accommodation From Grandparents in Predicting Grandchildren’s Well-Being

Utilizing Humor to Enhance Leadership Styles in Higher Education Administration

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