Humor-International Journal of Humor Research

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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity	16
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The demise of the joke	11
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy	11
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”	8
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality	8
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks	6
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease	5
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?	5
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south	5
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study	5
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian	5
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic	4
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism	4
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation	4
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion	4
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–1939	4
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online	4
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Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic	3
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking	3
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Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers	3
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor	3

Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television	3
The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem	3
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings	3
Just kidding? Exploring the role of traditional versus counter-traditional gender role jokes on gender identity threat	2
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Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change	2
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Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies	2
The rise in humor scandals: a cross-national comparison of humor-related public controversies in eight European countries (1990–2022)	2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction	2
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety	2
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes	2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera	2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic	2
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’	2
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage	2
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles	2
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm	2
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change	2
Jojo Rabbit: ethical implications and aesthetic innovations of a ludic Nazi Germany satire	1
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor	1
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Five theses on humor literacy in the public sphere	1
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek	1
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Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, and Jaroslav Švelch: Video Games and Comedy	1
Contextual and intertextual move components constituting openings and closings in Arabic non-live stand-up comedy	1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?	1
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism	1
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy	1
Psychometric adaptation of the Comic Style Markers in a Polish sample	1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy	1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness	1
Thomas C. Messerli. 2021. Repetition in Telecinematic Discourse: How American Sitcoms Employ Formal and Semantic Repetition in the Construction of Multimodal Humour.	1
It’s all fun and games until…: unintentional (?) direct fire amid the playful humor of Miguel Mihura’s Codorniz	1
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	1
Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population	1
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement	1
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor	1
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism	1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles	1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere	1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century	1
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law	1
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Humor styles and well-being of women with endometriosis during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication	1
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students	0
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults	0
Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club	0

Nick Butler: The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics	0
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model	0
Conners, Carrie: Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry	0
Esther Linares Bernabéu: The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts	0
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries	0
Francisco Yus: Pragmatics of Internet Humor	0
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors	0
From I to we in humor research: a systematic review of the antecedents and consequences of humor in groups	0
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century	0
Jessica Milner Davis: Humour in Asian Cultures. Tradition and Context	0
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Scrutinizing sexism in comedy under the lens of social identity threat and prejudiced norm theory: are leadership aspirations and benevolent sexism affected?	0
Computational research and the case for taking humor seriously	0
Mock impoliteness in Spanish: evidence from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus	0
From the Editor 37-1 (2024)	0
Sarah Balkin and Marc Mierowsky. 2024. Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech	0
Paul Bouissac: The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resistance	0
Conal Condren: Between laughter and satire: aspects of the historical study of humour	0
Organizational humor as making our work more meaningful: mediation by crafting job resources	0
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Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody	0
The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being	0
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Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)	0
Comedy Bootcamp: stand-up comedy as humor training for military populations	0
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)	0
Validation of the HEISS-G and the role of humor production for psychological well-being in a structural equation modeling approach	0
What is counter-Versailles literature? – At the intersection of humblebrag, irony, and humor	0
Dog tales: second-generation joke parties on the horizon	0
Satire, honey and tears: how The Onion and The Babylon Bee do satire	0
Maurophobia through racist humor in Spanish social media: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the neologism ‘Youthland’	0
Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel: Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises	0
Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor	0
Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman: A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice	0
Why cartoons make (some of) us smile	0
Richa Chilana and Rashi Bhargava (eds). 2024. Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy	0
Let’s entertain others: the relationship between comic styles and the histrionic self-presentation style in Polish, British, and Canadian samples	0
Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig	0
A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability	0
Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor	0
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons	0
Sienkiewicz, Matt and Nick Marx: That’s not funny: how the right makes comedy work for them	0
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor	0
Prosodic markers of satirical imitation	0
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan	0
Mary Beard: Laughter in Ancient Rome: on Joking, Tickling and Cracking Up	0
Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird: Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy	0
Rachel Trousdale: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry	0
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Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia	0
‘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 offense	0
Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin: Muslims and Humour. Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts	0
Development of the leader humor production preference scale: a preliminary study	0
Men’s responses to being confronted for sexism with and without humor	0
The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine	0
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe	0
What makes Mormons laugh	0
Elliott Oring: The consolations of humor and other folklore essays	0
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana: Punching up in stand-up comedy: speaking truth to power	0
A general mechanism of humor: reformulating the semantic overlap	0
Delia Casadei. 2024. Risible: Laughter Without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound. 219 pp. Oakland, CA. ISBN: 9780520391338. $34.95	0
She’s everything: reactions to and perceptions of the Barbie (2023) movie as subversive and disparagement humor	0
Jennifer Caplan: Funny, you don’t look funny: Judaism and humor from the silent generation to millennials	0
Clown doctors virtualized: hospital professionals’ perception regarding online visits during confinement in Portuguese public hospitals	0
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
What’s in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes	0
An examination of responses to ageist jokes	0
From humor to political dispositions: effect of disparagement humor on perceptions of political identity	0
Category-activity puzzles as resources for humor in L2 classrooms	0
Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives	0
Baumgartner, Jody C. and Amy B. Becker, eds: Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research	0
Stand-up for integration: stand-up comedy and its effects on social integration of expats and other migrants	0
The state-trait model of cheerfulness and social desirability: an investigation on psychometric properties and links with well-being	0
Downward-punching disparagement humor harms interpersonal impressions and trust	0
David Humphrey: The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan	0
David Shoemaker. 2024. Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life . pp. 204. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226832982. $25.00	0
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments	0
Oliver Double and Sharon Lockyer: Palgrave Studies in Comedy	0
“This does not interest the court!”: the 1966 Soviet Satire Trial and its persistent legacy	0
Chaoqun Xie: The Pragmatics of Internet Memes	0

A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter	0
Alex Symons: Women Comedians in the Digital Age Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump	0
Humor convergence based on humor type: a quantitative study of L2 humor responses	0
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents	0
How ethnic is ethnic humor? Theorizing a relationship between ethnic humor and identity	0
From the Editor 39-1 (2026)	0
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Dangerous jokes. How racism and sexism weaponize humor	0
“That kind of pants?!”: designedly ambiguous deadpan delivery of a possibly nonserious turn in multiparty Japanese conversation	0
Ellie Tomsett: Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities	0
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Raúl Pérez: The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy	0
Cosse, Isabella: Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic (translated by L. Pérez Carrara)	0
“A devout and holy sermon”: sources of parody in sermons joyeux	0
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion	0
Humor as a source for collaborative storytelling: perspectives on dynamic and static stories	0
Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha and Wolfgang Mieder: Anti-proverbs in five languages: structural features and verbal humor devices	0
Israeli Nonsense: humor, globalization and vegetables during the early nineties	0