Social Facilitation as a Factor in Reaction to Humor

Malpass, Leslie F.; Fitzpatrick, Eugene D.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1959.9922004

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“…Using the term “observable audience response,” his study showed that positive cues (e.g., nods and smiles) lead to improved evaluations of a speaker. Similar effects have been demonstrated in response to music (Hocking, Margreiter, & Hylton, 1977) and humor (Chapman & Chapman, 1974; Leventhal & Mace, 1970; Malpass & Fitzpatrik, 1959).…”

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Mediated Intra-Audience Effects in the Appreciation of Broadcast Sports

Cummins

Gong

2016

Communication & Sport

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Despite its ubiquitous presence in mediated sports, the influence of in-stadium crowd response on media audiences has escaped inquiry. Considerable evidence from both within and beyond the context of sports suggests that a co-spectator’s behavior can generate “intra-audience effects” that enhance perceptions of and response to game events. To test this in the context of broadcast sports, an experiment was conducted whereby participants provided moment-to-moment evaluations of radio broadcasts of soccer where mediated spectator response was systematically altered. Results demonstrate mediated intra-audience effects that yielded both inflated perceptions of the exiting nature of play and increased sense of spatial immersion in the mediated environment. The effect was most pronounced when game events were not intrinsically exciting.

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Mediated Intra-Audience Effects in the Appreciation of Broadcast Sports

Cummins

Gong

2016

Communication & Sport

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“…A good summary of the role of gender äs a variable in humor can be found in Duncan et al (1990: 260-261). Other useful studies are those of Fine (1987), Groch (1974), Hassett and Houlihan (1979), Malpass and Fitzpatrick, (1959) and Middleton and Moreland (1959). Nationality (which is linked to education, language and culture) affects humor.…”

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Humor in the hotel kitchen

Brown¹,

Keegan²

1999

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research

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It has been claimed that humor canprovide organizations with a sei ofskills that willenable employees to remain receptive to change, relieve tension, and contribute to reducing the annual $200 billion cost to U.S. industry for treating maladaptive stress (more than the cost ofthe effects ofsmoking).Recently, in Britain, a worker was awarded£6,000for constructive dismissal. The reason was that he is an Irishman who refused to accept "paddy "jokes in his workplace. Co-author Dermott Keegan has been a hotel managerfor nearly twenty years, and had overheard similar jokes in his kitchen. This incident formed the Stimulus for the research on which thepaper is based.We aimed to investigate the role that humor plays in an extremely important hotel department-the kitchen-and to examine the effects humor has in this department in such matters äs staff retention and training. The ultimate aim ofthe research waspractical-by viewing the hotel kitchen fr om the angle of humor, Keegan hoped to improve the smooth running ofthis very significant department.

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“…First, people like people who laugh and who have a good sense of humor (Fraley & Aron, 2004;Hewitt, 1958;Reysen, 2005;Sprecher & Regan, 2002), so laughing does elicit liking. Second, the fact that the same stimulus elicits more laughter when others are present than when one is alone (Malpass & Fitzpatrick, 1959;Martin & Kuiper, 1999;Provine & Fischer, 1989) could indicate that laughter is connected to social bonding. This effect of laughing more in the presence of others appears to be stronger with a samesex friend than with a same-sex stranger, indicating that social relatedness contributes to laughter (Devereux & Ginsburgh, 2001;Foot, Chapman, & Smith, 1977).…”

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What's So Funny About Not Having Money? The Effects of Power on Laughter

Stillman

Baumeister

DeWall

2007

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Two studies tested the hypothesis that occupying a position of low power increases the likelihood of laughter, presumably as a means of gaining friends and supporters. In Study 1, participants laughed more at an interviewer's jokes when the interviewer controlled their cash rewards than in the absence of monetary contingencies. Study 2 found that low-power participants (manipulated again by expecting that someone else would decide their cash rewards) laughed more than high-power participants even when they were alone. Low power also increased laughing at a fellow low-power coworker. These findings suggest that low power motivates interest in making friends and hence increases behaviors that promote social bonding.

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Social Facilitation as a Factor in Reaction to Humor

Cited by 38 publications

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Mediated Intra-Audience Effects in the Appreciation of Broadcast Sports

Mediated Intra-Audience Effects in the Appreciation of Broadcast Sports

Humor in the hotel kitchen

What's So Funny About Not Having Money? The Effects of Power on Laughter

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