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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The demise of the joke16
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy11
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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity8
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?5
Humor and A1C: the interaction between humor and diabetes control5
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks5
Claire Schmidt: If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers4
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian4
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture3
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease3
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19393
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study3
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion3
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south3
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The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem2
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Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change2
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor2
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism2
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Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic2
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers2
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic2
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television2
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings2
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic2
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure2
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online2
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up1
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples1
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement1
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek1
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes1
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Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies1
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century1
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Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor1
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy1
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera1
Waterlow, Jonathan: It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin1
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’1
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction1
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
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William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West1
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor1
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism1
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change1
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century0
Conners, Carrie: Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
Sienkiewicz, Matt and Nick Marx: That’s not funny: how the right makes comedy work for them0
Israeli Nonsense: humor, globalization and vegetables during the early nineties0
Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor0
Mock impoliteness in Spanish: evidence from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus0
“This does not interest the court!”: the 1966 Soviet Satire Trial and its persistent legacy0
It’s all fun and games until…: unintentional (?) direct fire amid the playful humor of Miguel Mihura’s Codorniz0
Chaoqun Xie: The Pragmatics of Internet Memes0
Organizational humor as making our work more meaningful: mediation by crafting job resources0
Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird: Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy0
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter0
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Downward-punching disparagement humor harms interpersonal impressions and trust0
The trouble with jokes: humour and offensiveness in contemporary culture and politics0
‘Do Mormons thinkThe Book of Mormonis funny?’0
Satire as safety valve: moving beyond a mistaken metaphor0
A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability0
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Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman: A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice0
Rachel Trousdale: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
Clown doctors virtualized: hospital professionals’ perception regarding online visits during confinement in Portuguese public hospitals0
What makes Mormons laugh0
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana: Punching up in stand-up comedy: speaking truth to power0
How ethnic is ethnic humor? Theorizing a relationship between ethnic humor and identity0
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion0
Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor0
Alex Symons: Women Comedians in the Digital Age Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump0
An examination of responses to ageist jokes0
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students0
Oliver Double and Sharon Lockyer: Palgrave Studies in Comedy0
Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives0
Conal Condren: Between laughter and satire: aspects of the historical study of humour0
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments0
Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club0
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor0
From I to we in humor research: a systematic review of the antecedents and consequences of humor in groups0
Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig0
Category-activity puzzles as resources for humor in L2 classrooms0
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale0
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model0
Jessica Milner Davis: Humour in Asian Cultures. Tradition and Context0
Lydia Amir: Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously0
Laughter in ancient rome on joking, tickling, and cracking up0
Baumgartner, Jody C. and Amy B. Becker, eds: Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research0
Francisco Yus: Pragmatics of Internet Humor0
Video games and comedy0
She’s everything: reactions to and perceptions of the Barbie (2023) movie as subversive and disparagement humor0
Esther Linares Bernabéu: The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts0
“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 institution0
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Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin: Muslims and Humour. Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts0
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults0
Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)0
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents0
Ellie Tomsett: Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities0
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)0
Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel: Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises0
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Cosse, Isabella: Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic (translated by L. Pérez Carrara)0
The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine0
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons0
Humor convergence based on humor type: a quantitative study of L2 humor responses0
‘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 offense0
A general mechanism of humor: reformulating the semantic overlap0
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression0
Elliott Oring: The consolations of humor and other folklore essays0
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan0
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries0
Children’s perceptions of others’ humor: does context matter?0
Humor as a source for collaborative storytelling: perspectives on dynamic and static stories0
Stand-up for integration: stand-up comedy and its effects on social integration of expats and other migrants0
From humor to political dispositions: effect of disparagement humor on perceptions of political identity0
Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor0
Prosodic markers of satirical imitation0
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication0
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The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being0
Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha and Wolfgang Mieder: Anti-proverbs in five languages: structural features and verbal humor devices0
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law0
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Computational research and the case for taking humor seriously0
Comedy Bootcamp: stand-up comedy as humor training for military populations0
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome0
Paul Bouissac: The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resistance0
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors0
Why cartoons make (some of) us smile0
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia0
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe0
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“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux0
Men’s responses to being confronted for sexism with and without humor0
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Satire, honey and tears: how The Onion and The Babylon Bee do satire0
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody0
Jennifer Caplan: Funny, you don’t look funny: Judaism and humor from the silent generation to millennials0
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma0
The state-trait model of cheerfulness and social desirability: an investigation on psychometric properties and links with well-being0
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)0
Let’s entertain others: the relationship between comic styles and the histrionic self-presentation style in Polish, British, and Canadian samples0
Raúl Pérez: The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy0
What is counter-Versailles literature? – At the intersection of humblebrag, irony, and humor0
Dog tales: second-generation joke parties on the horizon0
The time of laughter: comedy and the media cultures of Japan0
Self-deprecating humor and task persistence: the moderating role of self-defeating humor style0
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