Sex and salience in the appreciation of cartoon humor

Derks, Peter L.; Arora, S.

doi:10.1515/humr.1993.6.1.57

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“…The ANOVA here followed the same format äs for comprehension difficulty. With relatively non-sexual aggressive cartoons and the sexual materials that deprecate females incorporated into incongruity resolution, the gender difference found previously on similar material was not significant here, F(l,22) = 1.27,/?>0.25 (Derks 1992;Derks and Arora 1993). Therefore the amusement ratings were also collapsed over participant gender.…”

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Recall of innocent and tendentious humorous material

Derks¹,

Gardner²,

Agarwal³

1998

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Four studies comparedmemoryfor material that varied in humor, aggressive sexuality (tendency), and style. The findings were that humor improved memoryfor the material but arousing material increased recall further and interacted additively with humor. Humor seemed to have an effect on attention and selection of material while tendency influenced motivation and strength of recall Humor's role in education is assured. No matter how uncertain the effect of humor on appropriate attention and relevant memory, it is irresistible in the classroom. Indeed, when amusement is relevant to the task, äs in the memory for jokes to be transmitted in a social setting, there is a positive, if slight, effect on recall.In the earliest published study, Heim (1936) found that after a delay of between two and twenty-four weeks, 62 percent of the material initially laughed at was remembered, while only 8 percent of the material that did not elicit laughter was recalled. This figure was inflated slightly by the inclusion of three not-funny Stimuli that were remembered better than "slightly funny" Stimuli. In fact, with some computational gymnastics, it can be ascertained that on a 5 point scale (assuming "very funny" = 4 to "not funny" = 0) the remembered items were rated an average of 2.1 (just more than "funny") while the not remembered items averaged 1.3 (somewhat more than "slightly funny"). In spite of these reasonably clear results, Heim concludes that, "The main result of this experiment is to make one exceedingly chary of setting up any rules on the subject of humor" (p. 161).

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1998

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“…For example, making the punch line more incongruous simultaneously means changing its content or other properties. One way out is, for example, to leave the jokes intact, but undertake a differential priming of the two meanings of a key word in a joke (Wilson, 1979), or a priming of the theme (Goldstein, Suls & Anthony, 1972) or even the structure (Derks & Arora, 1993) of the jokes to follow.…”

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The Perception of Humor

Ruch

2001

Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness

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The chapter describes the humor response; i.e., the perception that something is funny as a distinct qualia. Cognitive models of humor are presented that define the minimal conditions for humor. The relevance of detection of incongruity and its resolution, but also the limitations of this two-stage model are discussed. Techniques for the experimental variation of key ingredients of humor are presented and a major paradigm, the weight-judging task, is introduced. The ascribed role of surprise as a mediator between perceiving and enjoying incongruity is examined. It is argued that the perception of humor is highly individualistic, and the presented summary of findings based on the 3 WD humor test suggests that humor appreciation is primarily affected by personality traits that refer to the individual's general tendency to seek out or avoid stimulus uncertainty. Due to its complexity and central role in human life, the study of humor is recommended for the study of consciousness.

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“…The finding that males have a significantly more favourable view of the cartoon Beavis & Butthead than females, was as expected though the significant differences found for Roadrunner and The Simpsons were a surprise. Expectations with regard to Beavis & Butthead were founded both on personal observations, casual conversation, and on the afore mentioned studies by Derks and Arora (1993) and Hemmasi et al (1994). The humour in the cartoon comes almost entirely from sexist behaviour and language and from toilet-humour, and these earlier studies have shown that females appreciate this type of humour less often than males.…”

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“…Further research is suggested. Derks, P. & Arora, S. (1993). Sex and salience in the appreciation of cartoon humor.…”

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“…This just goes to show how influential cartoons can be in people's lives. Derks and Arora (1993) investigated gender differences in cartoon appreciation using a number of cartoons that were selected as low or high in sexuality and low and high in humour. They had 990 Comment [S2]: Nice examples but it would be great if you could also include some academic ones rather than just colloquial ones.…”

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Key Research & Study Skills in Psychology

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2010

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Box 6.1: The 'what if i knew everything' game Step 1: Read the remaining exam questions carefully and decide which one you feel is least threatening/scary/panic-inducing/incomprehensible. Step 2: Break down the title (see below). Step 3: Open a page or answer book for rough work and remembering what we talked about in Chapter 4 break up the page into the headings introduction, main point 1, main point 2, main point 3, and conclusion. Step 4: Ask yourself 'If I knew everything about this topic what sort of things would I have to mention in the introduction?' and then jot down bullet points under your heading Introdution. This might look as follows: KEY RESEARCH AND STUDY SKILLS IN PSYCHOLOGY 194 Comment [S34]: Final two paragraphs are a clear concluding section though the final summing up should have reflected the good and the bad rather than just one side.

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Sex and salience in the appreciation of cartoon humor

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Recall of innocent and tendentious humorous material

Recall of innocent and tendentious humorous material

The Perception of Humor

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