Humor-International Journal of Humor Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Humor-International Journal of Humor Research is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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A pandemic of jokes? The Israeli COVID-19 meme and the construction of a collective response to risk25
Humor styles predict emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-1918
Funny and meaningful: media messages that are humorous and moving provide optimal consolation in corona times14
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe12
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults10
Employing satire and humor in facing a pandemic10
Understanding the effects of (dis)similarity in affiliative and aggressive humor styles between supervisor and subordinate on LMX and energy9
At whose expense? System justification and the appreciation of stereotypical humor targeting high- versus low-status groups9
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome8
Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor8
Sophisticated humor against COVID-19: the Polish case8
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor8
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents8
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression7
Humor in the age of coronavirus: a recapitulation and a call to action6
‘Do Mormons thinkThe Book of Mormonis funny?’5
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments5
“If we don’t quarrel, we joke”: Emic perspectives on Belarusian families’ humorous folklore5
Gerotranscendence and humor styles: the mediating role of generativity and wisdom5
“We came for the Sluts, but stayed for the Slutsk”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook page between ironic and genuine football fandom5
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma4
Impersonated personae – paralanguage, dialogism and affiliation in stand-up comedy4
What’s so funny? Adaptive versus maladaptive humor styles as mediators between early maladaptive schemas and resilience4
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor4
Computational research and the case for taking humor seriously3
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model3
The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being3
A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability3
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure3
‘Just kidding?’ – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense2
Adolescents creating cartoons: A developmental study of humor2
The demise of the joke2
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody2
Satire as safety valve: moving beyond a mistaken metaphor2
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture2
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students2
What makes Mormons laugh2
Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)2
Organizational humor as making our work more meaningful: mediation by crafting job resources2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement2
“This does not interest the court!”: the 1966 Soviet Satire Trial and its persistent legacy1
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)1
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons1
Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes1
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion1
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up1
Prosodic markers of satirical imitation1
Humor and A1C: the interaction between humor and diabetes control1
Sexist jokes don’t appear to increase rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism: Evidence from two pre-registered direct replications of Thomae and Viki (2013)1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
Self-deprecating humor and task persistence: the moderating role of self-defeating humor style1
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana: Punching up in stand-up comedy: speaking truth to power1
The association of animated sitcom viewing with humor styles and humor types1
Why cartoons make (some of) us smile1
“Some people work a bit more than me, and so we tease them”: the production of an elite student community in an elite French higher education institution1
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication1
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale1
Children’s perceptions of others’ humor: does context matter?1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples1
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan1
Reply to Holger Kersten: “Second Thoughts on Hyperbole about Satire’s Efficacy”1
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking1
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter1
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety1
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law1
The state-trait model of cheerfulness and social desirability: an investigation on psychometric properties and links with well-being1
Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor0
Jennifer Caplan: Funny, you don’t look funny: Judaism and humor from the silent generation to millennials0
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism0
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm0
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?0
Cosse, Isabella: Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic (translated by L. Pérez Carrara)0
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Chaoqun Xie: The Pragmatics of Internet Memes0
Ellie Tomsett: Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities0
Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club0
Mock impoliteness in Spanish: evidence from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus0
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality0
An examination of responses to ageist jokes0
The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine0
Lydia Amir: Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously0
Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig0
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers0
From humor to political dispositions: effect of disparagement humor on perceptions of political identity0
Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population0
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Francisco Yus: Pragmatics of Internet Humor0
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries0
From the Editor 37-1 (2024)0
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian0
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia0
Comedy Bootcamp: stand-up comedy as humor training for military populations0
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The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem0
Dog tales: second-generation joke parties on the horizon0
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates0
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From I to we in humor research: a systematic review of the antecedents and consequences of humor in groups0
Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha and Wolfgang Mieder: Anti-proverbs in five languages: structural features and verbal humor devices0
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Raúl Pérez: The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy0
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy0
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion0
Rachel Trousdale: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
Let’s entertain others: the relationship between comic styles and the histrionic self-presentation style in Polish, British, and Canadian samples0
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Esther Linares Bernabéu: The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts0
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism0
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Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera0
Conners, Carrie: Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
Israeli Nonsense: humor, globalization and vegetables during the early nineties0
ISHS memorial: Larry Ventis tribute0
Baumgartner, Jody C. and Amy B. Becker, eds: Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research0
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Clown doctors virtualized: hospital professionals’ perception regarding online visits during confinement in Portuguese public hospitals0
Oliver Double and Sharon Lockyer: Palgrave Studies in Comedy0
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century0
Alex Symons: Women Comedians in the Digital Age Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump0
Jessica Milner Davis: Humour in Asian Cultures. Tradition and Context0
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century0
Paul Bouissac: The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resistance0
Sienkiewicz, Matt and Nick Marx: That’s not funny: how the right makes comedy work for them0
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Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird: Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy0
Waterlow, Jonathan: It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin0
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest0
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor0
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change0
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’0
A general mechanism of humor: reformulating the semantic overlap0
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic0
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Humor as a source for collaborative storytelling: perspectives on dynamic and static stories0
Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel: Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises0
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy0
Downward-punching disparagement humor harms interpersonal impressions and trust0
Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman: A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice0
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy0
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online0
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Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor0
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek0
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism0
Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor0
What is counter-Versailles literature? – At the intersection of humblebrag, irony, and humor0
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere0
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William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West0
“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux0
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south0
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”0
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Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies0
Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin: Muslims and Humour. Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts0
Claire Schmidt: If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers0
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television0
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Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks0
Response to James Caron’s remarks0
Stand-up for integration: stand-up comedy and its effects on social integration of expats and other migrants0
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor0
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