2021
DOI: 10.1177/19485506211065938
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The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production

Abstract: Building on the benign violation theory and self-construal theory, we conducted four studies to examine how culture and social distance would influence humor appreciation, sharing, and production. Study 1 found that Chinese participants appreciated and intended to share a joke involving distant others more than that involving close others. They also generated funnier titles for a joke involving distant others than close others. Studies 2a and 2b compared Chinese and Americans using various types of jokes, repl… Show more

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“…The questionnaire was generated and distributed through a popular online survey platform called Credamo (https://www.credamo.com/#/), a Chinese platform providing functions similar to Mechanical Turk (Cao et al. , 2021) and So Jump (Wan et al.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The questionnaire was generated and distributed through a popular online survey platform called Credamo (https://www.credamo.com/#/), a Chinese platform providing functions similar to Mechanical Turk (Cao et al. , 2021) and So Jump (Wan et al.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The questionnaire was generated and distributed through a popular online survey platform called Credamo (https://www.credamo.com/#/), a Chinese platform providing functions similar to Mechanical Turk (Cao et al, 2021) and So Jump (Wan et al, 2020), which is a leading professional research platform recognized by research institutions around the world (Chen et al, 2022a;Li et al, 2022a;Wu et al, 2022a). At the beginning of the survey, we provided a graphic description of the MMC and asked participants to read the consent form to decide whether to continue participating.…”
Section: Data Collection and Reductionmentioning
confidence: 99%