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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives12
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure11
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Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change8
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody8
Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity8
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan7
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement5
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic5
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek4
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy4
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What makes Mormons laugh3
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion3
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The demise of the joke3
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy3
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism3
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons2
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries2
Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club2
The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine2
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor2
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere2
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century2
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”2
Self-deprecating humor and task persistence: the moderating role of self-defeating humor style2
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor2
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century2
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Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor2
Children’s perceptions of others’ humor: does context matter?1
Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples1
Humor as a source for collaborative storytelling: perspectives on dynamic and static stories1
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’1
Dog tales: second-generation joke parties on the horizon1
Elliott Oring: The consolations of humor and other folklore essays1
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression1
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality1
Stand-up for integration: stand-up comedy and its effects on social integration of expats and other migrants1
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students1
William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West1
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Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
Category-activity puzzles as resources for humor in L2 classrooms1
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
Raúl Pérez: The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Conners, Carrie: Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry1
From I to we in humor research: a systematic review of the antecedents and consequences of humor in groups1
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Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor1
Let’s entertain others: the relationship between comic styles and the histrionic self-presentation style in Polish, British, and Canadian samples1
The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being1
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor1
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)1
Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model0
Cosse, Isabella: Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic (translated by L. Pérez Carrara)0
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults0
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking0
Clown doctors virtualized: hospital professionals’ perception regarding online visits during confinement in Portuguese public hospitals0
Jessica Milner Davis: Humour in Asian Cultures. Tradition and Context0
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Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism0
Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor0
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma0
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Lydia Amir: Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously0
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Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes0
Men’s responses to being confronted for sexism with and without humor0
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism0
Computational research and the case for taking humor seriously0
Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin: Muslims and Humour. Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts0
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings0
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera0
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents0
An examination of responses to ageist jokes0
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety0
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian0
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‘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
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion0
Oliver Double and Sharon Lockyer: Palgrave Studies in Comedy0
Paul Bouissac: The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resistance0
Esther Linares Bernabéu: The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts0
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments0
Why cartoons make (some of) us smile0
Sienkiewicz, Matt and Nick Marx: That’s not funny: how the right makes comedy work for them0
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19390
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm0
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic0
How ethnic is ethnic humor? Theorizing a relationship between ethnic humor and identity0
Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel: Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises0
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage0
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Israeli Nonsense: humor, globalization and vegetables during the early nineties0
Humor and A1C: the interaction between humor and diabetes control0
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change0
Ellie Tomsett: Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities0
Prosodic markers of satirical imitation0
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television0
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A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability0
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
Alex Symons: Women Comedians in the Digital Age Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump0
Satire, honey and tears: how The Onion and The Babylon Bee do satire0
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture0
Waterlow, Jonathan: It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin0
What is counter-Versailles literature? – At the intersection of humblebrag, irony, and humor0
Mock impoliteness in Spanish: evidence from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus0
Claire Schmidt: If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers0
The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem0
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic0
“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
“This does not interest the court!”: the 1966 Soviet Satire Trial and its persistent legacy0
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe0
Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha and Wolfgang Mieder: Anti-proverbs in five languages: structural features and verbal humor devices0
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease0
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication0
Chaoqun Xie: The Pragmatics of Internet Memes0
Francisco Yus: Pragmatics of Internet Humor0
Satire as safety valve: moving beyond a mistaken metaphor0
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors0
Rachel Trousdale: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online0
“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux0
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Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy0
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana: Punching up in stand-up comedy: speaking truth to power0
The state-trait model of cheerfulness and social desirability: an investigation on psychometric properties and links with well-being0
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Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor0
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks0
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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
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles0
From the Editor0
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Jennifer Caplan: Funny, you don’t look funny: Judaism and humor from the silent generation to millennials0
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter0
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale0
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia0
Conal Condren: Between laughter and satire: aspects of the historical study of humour0
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law0
Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)0
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers0
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up0
Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird: Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy0
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome0
A general mechanism of humor: reformulating the semantic overlap0
Baumgartner, Jody C. and Amy B. Becker, eds: Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research0
Comedy Bootcamp: stand-up comedy as humor training for military populations0
From the Editor 37-1 (2024)0
Organizational humor as making our work more meaningful: mediation by crafting job resources0
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south0
Downward-punching disparagement humor harms interpersonal impressions and trust0
From humor to political dispositions: effect of disparagement humor on perceptions of political identity0
‘Do Mormons thinkThe Book of Mormonis funny?’0
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study0
Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies0
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