The Effect of Humor on Memory: Constrained by the Pun

Summerfelt, Hannah; Lippman, Louis G.; Hyman, Ira E.

doi:10.1080/00221309.2010.499398

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“…Past research found that humor is an important factor in stimulating recall of information, which is especially important when information is acquired incidentally. 45 However, Moyer-Guse et al 46 reported that while ''there is increasing evidence to suggest that humor provides a unique context within which persuasive effects can occur,'' (p766) they cautioned that the use of humor could trivialize the important health message conveyed.…”

Section: What Criteria Make a Health Information Message Relevant Andmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Prybutok

Ryan

2015

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

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This work examines where 18- to 30-year-old college students seek health information on the Internet and how they determine site and message credibility. Using a qualitative methodology, five focus groups were conducted with 18- to 30-year-old college students, and transcripts were analyzed with MaxQDA text analysis software. The study revealed that 18- to 30-year-old college students have Internet health information source preferences, reasons for seeking health information on the Internet, and message design factors that improve their perception of site and message credibility. We conclude that the Internet and social media show great promise as effective health communication channels for 18- to 30-year-old college students and confirm that preferred Internet/social media sites can be utilized by health educators to present important risk management/disease prevention information to 18- to 30-year-old college students. In addition, message design factors can lend credibility to both sites and the health information delivered there.

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Section: What Criteria Make a Health Information Message Relevant Andmentioning

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Ryan

2015

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“…Colors may enhance memory by increasing our attention level and arousal. Humor is thought to improve memory due not only to enhancing attentional engagement, but also by increasing higher-order cognitive processes and encouraging mental rehearsal of the information (i.e., as people who enjoy a humorous joke or cartoon tend to rethink about it frequently) (Dzulkifli and Mustafar, 2013; Schmidt and Schmidt, 2010; Summerfelt et al, 2010). It has been well documented that negative or positive affective stimuli are encoded and recalled better than neutral stimuli (Yonelinas and Ritchey, 2016).…”

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Neuroscience-informed psychoeducation for addiction medicine: A neurocognitive perspective

Ekhtiari

Rezapour

Aupperle

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Progress in Brain Research

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Psychoeducation (PE) is defined as an intervention with systematic, structured, and didactic knowledge transfer for an illness and its treatment, integrating emotional and motivational aspects to enable patients to cope with the illness and to improve its treatment adherence and efficacy. PE is considered an important component of treatment in both medical and psychiatric disorders, especially for mental health disorders associated with lack of insight, such as alcohol and substance use disorders (ASUDs). New advancements in neuroscience have shed light on how various aspects of ASUDs may relate to neural processes. However, the actual impact of neuroscience in the real-life clinical practice of addiction medicine is minimal. In this chapter, we provide a perspective on how PE in addiction medicine can be informed by neuroscience in two dimensions: content (knowledge we transfer in PE) and structure (methods we use to deliver PE). The content of conventional PE targets knowledge about etiology of illness, treatment process, adverse effects of prescribed medications, coping strategies, family education, and life skill training. Adding neuroscience evidence to the content of PE could be helpful in communicating not only the impact of drug use but also the beneficial impact of various treatments (i.e., on brain function), thus enhancing motivation for compliance and further destigmatizing their symptoms. PE can also be optimized in its “structure” by implicitly and explicitly engaging different neurocognitive processes, including salience/attention, memory, and self-awareness. There are many interactions between these two dimensions, structure and content, in the delivery of neuroscience-informed psychoeducation (NIPE). We explore these interactions in the development of a cartoon-based NIPE to promote brain recovery during addiction treatment as a part of the brain awareness for addiction recovery initiative.

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“…Summerfelt et al 19 conducted a series of experiments that confirmed that humor is an important factor in stimulating recall of information, which becomes especially important when information is acquired incidentally. Paek et al 18 examined 934 YouTube smoking-related videos for their use of dramatic audio or visual components that would provoke a sensory or emotional response.…”

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A Content Relevance Model for Social Media Health Information

Prybutok

Koh

Prybutok³

2014

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

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Consumer health informatics includes the development and implementation of Internet-based systems to deliver health risk management information and health intervention applications to the public. The application of consumer health informatics to educational and interventional efforts such as smoking reduction and cessation has garnered attention from both consumers and health researchers in recent years. Scientists believe that smoking avoidance or cessation before the age of 30 years can prevent more than 90% of smoking-related cancers and that individuals who stop smoking fare as well in preventing cancer as those who never start. The goal of this study was to determine factors that were most highly correlated with content relevance for health information provided on the Internet for a study group of 18- to 30-year-old college students. Data analysis showed that the opportunity for convenient entertainment, social interaction, health information-seeking behavior, time spent surfing on the Internet, the importance of available activities on the Internet (particularly e-mail), and perceived site relevance for Internet-based sources of health information were significantly correlated with content relevance for 18- to 30-year-old college students, an educated subset of this population segment.

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The Effect of Humor on Memory: Constrained by the Pun

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