Journal articles: 'Adult humor'

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Wick, Jeannette Y., and Guido R. Zanni. "Humor and the Older Adult." Consultant Pharmacist 23, no. 11 (November 1, 2008): 909–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4140/tcp.n.2008.909.

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Herth, Kaye Ann. "Humor and the older adult." Applied Nursing Research 6, no. 4 (November 1993): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0897-1897(05)80112-0.

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Yue, Xiao D., Chun-Lok Leung, and Neelam A. Hiranandani. "Adult Playfulness, Humor Styles, and Subjective Happiness." Psychological Reports 119, no. 3 (August 20, 2016): 630–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294116662842.

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Playfulness has been referred to as a disposition that involves reframing a situation to amuse others and to make the situation more stimulating and enjoyable. It may serve to shift one’s perspective when dealing with environmental threats. Despite all the benefits of playfulness towards psychological well-being, it remains a largely understudied subject in psychology, particularly in Chinese societies. Hence, this study examined the association between adult playfulness, humor styles, and subjective happiness among a sample of 166 university students in Hong Kong and 159 students in Guangzhou, who completed a self-administered questionnaire, including the Short Measure for Adult Playfulness, the Chinese Humor Styles Questionnaire, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Results showed that adult playfulness was positively correlated with affiliative humor, self-enhancing humor, and subjective happiness in both Hong Kong and Guangzhou samples. By its implication, highly playful Chinese students preferred using affiliative and self-enhancing humor to amuse themselves and others.

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Aronson, Pamela, and Islam Jaffal. "Zoom Memes for Self-Quaranteens: Generational Humor, Identity, and Conflict During the Pandemic." Emerging Adulthood 10, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 519–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21676968211058513.

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The objective of this study is to examine young adults’ perceptions of the pandemic. This study is based on a content analysis of memes posted on one of the most popular emerging–adult-focused Facebook groups established during the pandemic. It finds that three themes emerged: pandemic humor, generational identity humor, and generational conflict humor. Memes about the pandemic include sub-themes of a coming apocalypse, adults who deny the seriousness of COVID-19, and a more general expression of negative feelings, particularly anger and fear, through humor. Posts also emphasize the existence of a shared generational identity through humor, with commonly understood references to issues like online learning, productivity, and mental health. Finally, generational conflict humor emphasizes antagonism with older generations, including mistrust of government and political leaders, professors, and universities.

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Hu, Xiao-Feng, Hao Kang, Hui Wang, Xu-Hui Liu, and Yong Tao. "Clinical characteristics of ocular toxocariasis in adults in north China." International Journal of Ophthalmology 15, no. 3 (March 18, 2022): 401–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18240/ijo.2022.03.05.

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AIM: To investigate the clinical features of adult patients with ocular toxocariasis (OT) in north China and to diagnose adults OT patients in early stage. METHODS: Clinical data of 24 adults with OT were retrospectively analyzed. Slit lamp photographs and fundus photographs and other imaging examinations of all the patients were reviewed. A questionnaire concerning the pet ownership and place of residence was completed to investigate the possible infection origin. Descriptive statistical analyses were performed on the demographic data, clinical features, funduscopic findings and ELISA results. RESULTS: Among the 24 patients diagnosed with OT by Toxocara IgG antibody in intraocular fluid, 16 (66.7%) eyes were right eye. The onset age of 12 eyes (50.0%) was between 30 and 40 years old, and 21 (87.5%) eyes were of peripheral granuloma type. The most common sign was vitreous opacity. Granulomas were detected in all the eyes, and 20 (83.3%) patients resided in rural area. In 4 patients, the concentration of anti-Toxocara antibody both in anterior humor and in vitreous humor were detected, and the results showed the concentration in vitreous humor was much higher than aqueous humor. CONCLUSION: Our study analyzes the clinical manifestation of OT in adults, which may have been under-recognized before. Eye side, residence, and detection of granuloma may help us in diagnosis of OT in patients with monocular vitreous opacity. For adult patients with presumed OT, negative results of anti-Toxocara antibody in anterior humor cannot rule out the possibility of OT, further detection of vitreous humor is suggested for final diagnosis.

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Kfrerer, Marisa L., Nicholas G. Martin, and Julie Aitken Schermer. "A behavior genetic analysis of the relationship between humor styles and depression." HUMOR 32, no. 3 (August 27, 2019): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0098.

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Abstract The present study examined the relationship between humor styles and depression using two methods of examination: (1) the mean humor style differences between individuals who reported that they had been diagnosed with depression versus those who did not report being depressed; and (2) the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations between humor styles and a short scale assessing depressed affect created from preexisting measures in archival data. Participants were 1154 adult Australians, consisting of 339 monozygotic twin pairs and 238 dizygotic twin pairs. With respect to mean differences, depressed individuals were found to use self-defeating humor more and self-enhancing humor less than non-depressed adults. When the depressed affect scale score was analyzed, negative correlations were found with both affiliative and self-enhancing humor. A positive correlation was found between depressed affect and both aggressive and self-defeating humor. These phenotypic correlations were also found to have some significant genetic and environmental correlations.

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Bergen, Doris. "The development of sex differences in humor initiation and appreciation." HUMOR 33, no. 2 (May 27, 2020): 179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0136.

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AbstractBoth common observations and research evidence strongly suggest that there are major differences between adult males and females as to both the number of humorous attempts they display in social situations and the types of humor they initiate and appreciate. What the causes are for these differences, however, have been less clear, with attributions being related to both biological and environmental reasons. In fact, researchers who have studied the development of humor in infants, preschoolers, and elementary age children have generally observed that the early humor of both boys and girls is similar, thus raising the possibility that the differences that gradually emerge with age may be attributed more to environmental rather than to biological reasons. This chapter will discuss the humor research evidence amassed by those who have studied young children’s humor development and the potential environmental influences on humor development that may account for some of the sex differences seen in adult humor.

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Anderson, Charity. "“His Sense of Humor Carried the Day”: Using Humor With Nontraditional Adult Learners." Adult Learning 31, no. 1 (December 24, 2019): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1045159519891254.

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Eisenman, Russell. "Using Humor in Psychotherapy with a Sex Offender." Psychological Reports 71, no. 3 (December 1992): 994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3.1089.

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Humor was used during psychotherapy with a 22-year-old child molester. The humor appeared to help establish rapport and led to his admission of desires to rape and torture adult women. Here exchange of humor seemed to be a helpful adjunct to psychotherapy.

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Burro, Roberto, Alessandra Fermani, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Morena Muzi, Alessia Bertolazzi, and Carla Canestrari. "The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 5 (February 22, 2022): 2522. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052522.

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The Coping Humor Scale (CHS) is a seven-item tool widely used to assess the use of humor in coping with stressful situations. The beneficial effect of humor in buffering the impact of negative experiences has been investigated in several contexts and populations; for this reason, the CHS has been used in many languages, but its solid validation in Italian is still missing. Our study aimed at building a robust instrument to measure coping humor strategies among Italian health care workers, a category which has been particularly exposed to stressful situations in the last two years. The CHS translated into Italian was administered to a sample of 735 health care workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis were performed. As a result, a six-item Robust Italian Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) was validated and ready to use for future studies on Italian health care workers’ samples. This study gives evidence that our six-item solution works as a ruler (i.e., an instrument that meets the conditions of fundamental measurement in the context of the human sciences) to measure the degree to which Italian health care workers rely on humor to cope with stress.

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Kelly, F. Donald, and Deborah Osborne. "Ego States and Preference for Humor." Psychological Reports 85, no. 3 (December 1999): 1031–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.1031.

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This study investigated the extent to which college students' preference for humor could be predicted by ego states derived from Transactional Analysis. Scores on The Adjective Check List determined the ego states of Nurturant Parent, Critical Parent, Adult, Free Child, and Adapted Child. Preferences for nonsense, ethnic, and sexual humor were measured by scores on the Antioch Sense of Humor Inventory. A step-wise multiple regression, used to test the predictive power of the ego states, indicated that the Critical Parent ego state had a strong negative evaluation of nonsense humor, while the Free Child and Adapted Child were the strongest predictors of negative evaluation of ethnic humor. Categories of Critical Parent and Adapted Child provided the strongest prediction of positive preference for sexual humor.

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Reddington, Elizabeth, and Hansun Zhang Waring. "Understanding the Sequential Resources for Doing Humor in the Language Classroom." HUMOR 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2014-0144.

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AbstractHumor scholars have made great strides in identifying markers of humor such as prosody and laughter as well as the various social functions of humor in both everyday talk and workplace communication. Less research has been devoted to understanding the mechanisms of humor or how humor is done in naturally occurring interaction. Based on videotaped data from adult English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms, we describe a specific set of sequential resources for producing humor in the language classroom and do so within a conversation analytic framework. We also give some preliminary consideration to the applicability of the findings in other interactional contexts as well as to the question of whether participants are oriented towards moments of humor as opportunities for language learning.

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Weber, Marco, Willibald Ruch, Rainer Riemann, Frank M. Spinath, and Alois Angleitner. "A Twin Study on Humor Appreciation." Journal of Individual Differences 35, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 130–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000136.

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The present study focused on genetic and environmental influences on appreciation of structure and content of humor. Monozygotic (n = 135) and dizygotic (n = 60) adult twin pairs rated their trait-like humor appreciation using the 3 WD humor test (Ruch, 1992) which assesses three basic humor stimuli (incongruity-resolution humor; nonsense humor; sexual humor), and two basic components of responses to humor (funniness; aversiveness). Additionally, two indices were derived from these scales, namely structure preference and liking of sexual content (i.e., controlled for humor structure). Intraclass correlations and behavior genetic model-fitting analyses indicated a moderate genetic effect for funniness ratings of liking the sexual content. The remaining funniness scales seemed entirely influenced by environmental effects. Aversiveness scales mainly showed environmental effects represented in reduced CE models, although twin similarity coefficients showed hints of genetic influences as well, which needs to be unraveled in future research. The results demonstrated clearly that funniness ratings should be separated for structure and content, to obtain detailed information about heritability of humor appreciation. Future research should validate these promising initial findings by utilizing larger samples.

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Vernon, Philip A., Rod A. Martin, Julie Aitken Schermer, Lynn F. Cherkas, and Tim D. Spector. "Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Humor Styles: A Replication Study." Twin Research and Human Genetics 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/twin.11.1.44.

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AbstractOne thousand and seventy three pairs of adult monozygotic (MZ) twins and 895 pairs of same sex adult dizygotic (DZ) twins from the United Kingdom (UK) completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire: a 32-item measure which assesses two positive and two negative styles of humor. MZ correlations were approximately twice as large as DZ correlations for all four humor styles, and univariate behavioral genetic model fitting indicated that individual differences in all of them can be accounted for entirely by genetic and nonshared environmental factors, with heritabilities ranging from .34 to .49. These results, while perhaps not surprising, are somewhat at odds with a previous study that we conducted in North America (Vernon et al., in press) in which genetic factors contributed significantly to individual differences in the two positive humor styles, but contributed far less to the two negative styles, variance in which was instead largely due to shared and nonshared environmental factors. We suggest that differences between North American and UK citizens in their appreciation of different kinds of humor may be responsible for the different results obtained in these two studies.

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Baughman, H. M., E. A. Giammarco, Livia Veselka, Julie A. Schermer, Nicholas G. Martin, Michael Lynskey, and Phillip A. Vernon. "A Behavioral Genetic Study of Humor Styles in an Australian Sample." Twin Research and Human Genetics 15, no. 5 (June 13, 2012): 663–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2012.23.

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The present study investigated the extent to which individual differences in humor styles are attributable to genetic and/or environmental factors in an Australian sample. Participants were 934 same-sex pairs of adult twins from the Australian Twin Registry (546 monozygotic pairs, 388 dizygotic pairs) who completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). The HSQ measures four distinct styles of humor — affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Results revealed that additive genetic and non-shared environmental factors accounted for the variance in all four humor styles, thus replicating results previously obtained in a sample of twins from the United Kingdom. However, a study conducted with a U.S. sample produced different results and we interpret these findings in terms of cross-cultural differences in humor.

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Tanujaya, Sophie Ariella, and Liem Satya Limanta. "Childhood Trauma Aftermath on the Adult BoJack Horseman." K@ta Kita 10, no. 2 (October 27, 2022): 380–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.10.2.380-387.

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In recent decades, adult animation has garnered its own audience due to its mix of dark humor and slash of reality. One popular series is BoJack Horseman. The show intrigues me because throughout its six seasons, it manages to show how childhood trauma deeply affects BoJack, the main character, as an adult. In this study, we want to analyze the root causes of BoJack’s childhood trauma and the coping mechanisms he did. The findings of this research suggest that there are two main reasons: maltreatment from caretakers and loss of a loved one. Furthermore, there are four forms of maltreatment from his parents: hurtful words, broken marriage, domestic abuse, and gaslighting/guilt tripping. To cope with his trauma, BoJack used four strategies: escapism, dark humor, suicide attempt, and professional help. Through a combination of these four strategies, BoJack was forced to deal with his childhood trauma to become a better person.

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Rath, Jessica M., Valerie F. Williams, Andrea C. Villanti, Molly P. Green, Paul D. Mowery, and Donna M. Vallone. "Boosting Online Response Rates Among Nonresponders." Social Science Computer Review 35, no. 5 (July 14, 2016): 619–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439316656151.

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Online data collection has become an extremely popular survey mode given its reduced cost, ease of administration, and timeliness. Although extensive research exists on the influence of e-mail invitation design characteristics to prompt survey participation, less is known about the effectiveness of e-mail reminders in prompting survey completion among nonresponders. The purpose of this study was to determine whether incorporating humor into e-mail reminders improved survey completion rates. Respondents from the Truth Initiative Young Adult Cohort ( n = 2,963) who did not respond to the first standard e-mail invitation to complete their follow-up survey were randomly assigned to one of the three e-mail reminder groups: control (standard), humor only, or humor plus statistics. Those who received an initial humor plus statistics reminder e-mail received the humor only e-mail as their second reminder and vice versa. Logistic regression was used to generate the odds ratios ( OR) for the probability of completing the survey after the first reminder. Results of multivariable models showed that, when collapsed together, the humor only and humor plus statistics e-mails were more effective than the control [adjusted OR (AOR) = 1.23, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.01, 1.49], p = .05]. Receiving the humorous e-mail as the first reminder increased the odds of response to the survey by 24% (AOR = 1.24, 95% CI [1.00, 1.54], p = .04). Those entering the study at an earlier wave, nonsmokers and those living in smaller households were more likely to respond after the first reminder. A humorous reminder tailored to the voice of the audience is an easy, efficient, and effective way to increase response rates among young adults.

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Veselka, Livia, Julie Aitken Schermer, Rod A. Martin, and Philip A. Vernon. "Laughter and Resiliency: A Behavioral Genetic Study of Humor Styles and Mental Toughness." Twin Research and Human Genetics 13, no. 5 (October 1, 2010): 442–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/twin.13.5.442.

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This study investigated phenotypic correlations between mental toughness and humor styles, as well as the common genetic and environmental effects underlying these correlations. Participants were 201 adult twin pairs from North America. They completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire, assessing individual differences in two positive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two negative (aggressive, self-defeating) humor styles. They also completed the MT48, measuring individual differences in global mental toughness and its eight factors (Commitment, Control, Emotional Control, Control over Life, Confidence, Confidence in Abilities, Interpersonal Confidence, Challenge). Positive correlations were found between the positive humor styles and all of the mental toughness factors, with all but one reaching significance. Conversely, negative correlations were found between all mental toughness factors and the negative humor styles, with the mental toughness factors of Control, Emotional Control, Confidence, Confidence in Abilities, and Interpersonal Confidence exhibiting significant correlations. Subsequent behavioral genetic analyses revealed that these phenotypic correlations were primarily attributable to common genetic and common non-shared environmental factors. The implications of these findings regarding the potential effects of humor styles on wellbeing, and the possible selective use of humor by mentally tough individuals are discussed.

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Pérez-Cruz, Margarita, Laura Parra-Anguita, Catalina López-Martínez, Sara Moreno-Cámara, and Rafael del-Pino-Casado. "Coping and Anxiety in Caregivers of Dependent Older Adult Relatives." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9 (May 12, 2019): 1651. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091651.

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The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between coping and anxiety in caregivers of dependent older adult relatives. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain). The convenience sample consisted of 198 family caregivers of dependent older adults. The main measurements were anxiety (Hamilton scale), coping (Brief COPE), subjective burden (Caregiver Strain Index), objective burden and sex of the caregiver. The main analyses were bivariate analysis using the Pearson correlation coefficient, and multivariate analysis using multiple linear regression. An independent regression model was developed for anxiety and each type of coping, adjusting for sex, subjective burden and objective burden. Our results demonstrate that anxiety was negatively associated with planning (partial r = −0.18), acceptance (partial r = −0.22) and humor (partial r = −0.20), and it was positively associated with self-distraction (partial r = 0.19), venting (partial r = 0.22), denial (partial r = 0.27) and self-blame (partial r = 0.25). Planning, acceptance and humor coping strategies may be protective factors of anxiety. Strategies such self-management, relief, denial and self-blame may be risk factors for anxiety.

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Morrison, Hope. "Humor in Young Adult Literature: A Time to Laugh (review)." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 59, no. 3 (2005): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2005.0044.

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Miller, Alyson, Rebecca Hutton, and Elizabeth Braithwaite. "Dead Funny? The Ideological Use of Humour and Comedy in Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2017vol25no1art1096.

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The threat of environmental devastation, and the speed with which humanity is damaging the planet, are widely viewed as serious concerns in the twenty-first century. Yet the gravity which accompanies interpretations of such issues can also serve as ‘a fruitful starting point for humor’ born of ‘incongruence[s] between the serious and the non-serious’ (Lyyktimäki 2015, p. 178). In Saci Lloyd’s young adult novels The Carbon Diaries 2015 and The Carbon Diaries 2017, humour and comedy contribute to each text’s attempts to encourage implied young adult readers to engage critically with the threat of ecological devastation, even though the questions of how to reduce the likelihood of ecological disaster most effectively on a broad scale, and how best to bring about responsible use of the environment, are problems which are still a long way from being answered

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Goel, Vinod, and Raymond J. Dolan. "Social Regulation of Affective Experience of Humor." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19, no. 9 (September 2007): 1574–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.9.1574.

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The element of surprise, a necessary condition for the experience of humor, often derives from the fact that the alternative interpretation/resolution offered by the punch line of a joke is physically or socially forbidden. Children's humor typifies violation of physical norms, whereas adult humor typically pushes the boundaries of social norms. Excess norm violation, to the point of offending, can attenuate the experience of humor/mirth. To examine the neural basis of regulation of affective experience of humor by social norms, we scanned 16 normal subjects while they viewed a series of cartoons that varied in funniness and social acceptability. Behavioral results indicated two separate groups of subjects, those who found the cartoons less offensive and those who found them more offensive. In the group that found the jokes more offensive, there was a negative correlation between funniness and social inappropriateness. In this group, the corresponding Humor by Social inappropriateness interaction during functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed enhanced activation in the right hippocampus along with relative deactivation in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC). By contrast, the Funniness by Social appropriateness interaction resulted in activation in the VMPFC and relative deactivation in the right hippocampus. These results suggest that the regulation of humor by social norms involves reciprocal response patterns between VMPFC and hippocampus regions implicated in contextual regulation of behavior and memory, respectively.

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Vernon, Philip A., Vanessa C. Villani, Julie Aitken Schermer, Sandra Kirilovic, Rod A. Martin, K. V. Petrides, Tim D. Spector, and Lynn F. Cherkas. "Genetic and Environmental Correlations Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Humor Styles." Journal of Individual Differences 30, no. 3 (January 2009): 130–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.30.3.130.

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This article reports the first studies to investigate the genetic and environmental components of correlations between humor styles and trait emotional intelligence. In two independent adult-twin samples, significant phenotypic correlations were found between four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating) and five trait emotional intelligence (EI) variables (well-being, self-control, emotionality, sociability, and global trait EI). These observed phenotypic correlations were themselves found to be largely attributable to correlated genetic and correlated nonshared environmental factors.

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Mendiburo-Seguel, Andrés, and Sonja Heintz. "Comic styles and their relation to the sense of humor, humor appreciation, acceptability of prejudice, humorous self-image and happiness." HUMOR 33, no. 3 (August 27, 2020): 381–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0151.

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AbstractThe present study investigates the relationships of eight comic styles (fun, benevolent humor, nonsense, wit, irony, satire, sarcasm, and cynicism) with acceptability of prejudice (laughing at different groups and topics), humorous self-image (funniness and frequency of laughter), humor appreciation (funniness and aversiveness of cartoons with different structures and contents), and happiness. A representative Chilean adult sample (N=857, 60.8% women; age M=40.50, SD=17.28) was recruited in face-to-face interviews and online surveys. They completed self-reports of all variables as well as a humor appreciation test. Most of the comic styles related to finding the cartoons funnier. Furthermore, the darker styles were more strongly related to laughing at a variety of topics and groups. Also, happiness was positively related to fun and benevolent humor and negatively to cynicism. This study provides evidence of the criterion validity of the Comic Style Markers in Latin-American cultures and highlights differences between lighter and darker styles.

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Mazurkiewicz, Natalia, Mariusz Lipowski, Jarosław Krefta, and Małgorzata Lipowska. "“Better If They Laugh with Me than at Me”: The Role of Humor in Coping with Obesity-Related Stigma in Women." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 15 (July 28, 2021): 7974. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18157974.

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This study investigated the role of perceived stigmatization in the relationship between humor styles and coping with stress among young women suffering from stigma due to obesity. In the 21st century, obesity is an increasing global health issue with many physical and mental consequences for obese women. As a chronic stigmatizing disease, it requires that the affected individuals cope with social consequences; women with obesity are more prone to such consequences than men. Humor fosters the breaking of stereotypes and alleviating the consequences of stigmatization. A total of 127 young adult women (age M = 25.74, SD = 2.73) participated in the study (n = 54 with overfat and n = 73 with healthy fat). Participants filled out the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Perceived Stigmatization Questionnaire, and the Brief COPE Scale. Anthropometric data were gathered using a body composition analyzer. Results indicate that, when perceiving hostile behaviors toward themselves and using humor as a coping strategy, women with overfat select maladaptive styles of humor (i.e., self-defeating and aggressive styles). Women with overfat were also more likely to use humor as a coping strategy in difficult situations. Furthermore, none of the participants were satisfied with their body mass. At the same time, among women without obesity, a lack of compliments was not treated as a problem, even if they had high body fat.

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Gubanov, Nikolay N., Lyudmila O. Rokotianskaya, and Nikolay I. Gubanov. "BLACK HUMOR: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRAGEDY INTO AN ABSTRACT IDEA." Humanitarian: actual problems of the humanities and education, no. 3 (September 30, 2018): 328–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15507/2078-9823.043.018.201803.328-340.

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Introduction. Humor is a mirror of sociocultural changes, looking into which you can learn about the desires, fears and concerns inherent in people of a particular historical era. This article is devoted to one of the most specific features of our time – black humor. In the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, its popularity increased significantly. Among the possible reasons for this phenomenon, it is especially possible to distinguish the role of the media in the unnecessarily detailed coverage of tragic events. Materials and methods. Materials for reflection were philosophical and artistic texts, folklore, films, content of television programs and Internet files. We used the abstract-logical method, the method of system analysis, historical, hermeneutical comparative methods. Results of the research. Socio-cultural factors that caused changes in the attitude of society towards laughter and humor from a generally negative to a generally positive attitude are revealed. Thanks to this, black humor, despite all its ambiguity, has become a familiar phenomenon for many people. Acquaintance with black humor begins with the earliest childhood – from children’s literature, cartoons and folklore, the creators of which often act themselves children. Moreover, much of the black jokes for the adult audience are also devoted to children (themes of child mortality, disability, pedophilia, etc.). A radical shift in the attitude of people towards death, and in particular child death, could also serve as the reason for the increased popularity of the humor genre in question. Details of the peculiarities of humor about real disasters, Internet trolling, humorous coverage of public and private deaths, connection of black humor and fear of death are considered in detail. Discussion and conclusion. The main dimensions of black humor are temporal, territorial, social, hypothetical distances, repeatability, irreversibility of damage. Positive function of humor is that it serves as a means of counteracting any limitations of life. Black humor opposes the main of these limitations-death. It is the transformation of tragedy into an abstract idea. Abstractive idea is abstracted from the events that occurred and reduces the psycho-traumatic perception of real phenomena. Thus, black humor performs a positive function of psychological defense.

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Del Ré, Alessandra, Christelle Dodane, Aliyah Morgenstern, and Alessandra Jacqueline Vieira. "Children’s development of humour in everyday interactions: two case-studies in French and Brazilian Portuguese." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 4 (December 9, 2020): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.4.del-re.

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In order to understand how children learn to recognize and use humor in their own cultural environment, we have chosen to study their production in two different languages and cultures. We studied a French-speaking monolingual child and a Brazilian Portuguese-speaking child, video-recorded once a month up to seven years old. The detailed multimodal linguistic coding of our data enabled us to draw the multimodal paths the two children followed from the first instances of shared amusement initiated by the adult, expressed mainly through reactive behavior such as laughing, to the children’s own verbal production of successful humor in dialogue. Our study demonstrates that the production of children’s humor is closely linked to the family input (their micro-culture), and to children’s multimodal linguistic and meta-cognitive development. We did not observe important differences between the two children at the macro-cultural level, but there were noticeable inter-individual differences.

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Southam, Marti. "Therapeutic Humor: Attitudes and Actions by Occupational Therapists in Adult Physical Disabilities Settings." Occupational Therapy In Health Care 17, no. 1 (January 2003): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j003v17n01_03.

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Zhao, Min, Joseph J. Hejkal, Carl B. Camras, and Carol B. Toris. "Aqueous Humor Dynamics during the Day and Night in Juvenile and Adult Rabbits." Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science 51, no. 6 (June 1, 2010): 3145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.09-4415.

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Southam, Marti. "Therapeutic Humor: Attitudes and Actions by Occupational Therapists in Adult Physical Disabilities Settings." Occupational Therapy In Health Care 17, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j003v17n01_03.

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Hoyt, Heather M. "The Mediating Voice of Humor: The Shoe Bird and Welty’s Adult Texts." Eudora Welty Review 1, no. 1 (2009): 169–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ewr.2009.0017.

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Tan, Tracy, and Margaret A. Schneider. "Humor as a Coping Strategy for Adult-Child Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease." Geriatric Nursing 30, no. 6 (November 2009): 397–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2009.09.004.

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Tennant, Kathleen Fox. "Laugh it Off: The Effect of Humor on the Well-Being of the Older Adult." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 16, no. 12 (December 1, 1990): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0098-9134-19901201-05.

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Muinck, Gabrielle Da Costa de, Joana Coutinho, Priscilla Alfradique de Souza, Rosane Barreto Cardoso, and Rosâne Mello. "Terapia do riso em adultos e idosos hospitalizados: revisão integrativa." Revista Recien - Revista Científica de Enfermagem 11, no. 33 (March 29, 2021): 139–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24276/rrecien2021.11.33.139-148.

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A terapia do riso começou a ser difundida devido a hospitalização ser hostil para os pacientes. Manter a integridade do indivíduo, levando em consideração seu humor é considerada uma atribuição do enfermeiro. Identificar como a intervenção terapia do riso em adultos e idosos hospitalizados atua nas respostas de bem-estar, qualidade de vida e humor. Revisão integrativa da literatura. Foram selecionados sete artigos após a busca, com utilização dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Estudos relatam a comprovação dos efeitos benéficos acerca do humor, podendo reduzir estresse, ansiedade, e influenciando diretamente nos sinais vitais. Ressalta-se a importância do desenvolvimento de pesquisas sobre a temática, devido à escassez na literatura de estudos, sobretudo brasileiros. O uso da risoterapia é necessária no ambiente hospitalar, por isso, estudos como esse ajudam a incentivar os profissionais a implementar essa estratégia e assim melhorar a qualidade da assistência prestada.Descritores: Terapia do Riso, Saúde do Adulto, Saúde do Idoso. Laughter therapy in adults and hospitalized elderly: integrative reviewAbstract: Laughter therapy started to be widespread due to hospitalization being hostile to patients. Maintaining the individual's integrity, taking into account his mood is considered a nurse's responsibility. To identify how the laughter therapy intervention in hospitalized adults and elderly acts on responses to well-being, quality of life and mood. Integrative literature review. Seven articles were selected after the search, using the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Studies report evidence of beneficial effects on mood, which can reduce stress, anxiety, and influence directly on vital signs. The importance of developing research on the subject is emphasized, due to the scarcity in the literature of studies, especially Brazilians. The use of risotherapy is necessary in the hospital environment, therefore, studies like this help to encourage professionals to implement this strategy and thus improve the quality of care provided.Descriptors: Laughter Therapy, Adult Health, Health of the Elderly. Terapia de risa en adultos y personas hospitalizadas: revisión integrativaResumen: Terapia de risa comenzó a generalizarse debido a que la hospitalización era hostil. Mantener la integridad del individuo, y su estado de ánimo, se considera responsabilidad de la enfermera. Identificar cómo la intervención de terapia de risa en adultos hospitalizados y ancianos actúa sobre las respuestas al bienestar, calidad de vida y estado de ánimo. Revisión integral de literatura. Se seleccionaron siete artículos después de la búsqueda, con criterios de inclusión y exclusión. Estudios informan efectos beneficiosos sobre estado de ánimo, que pueden reducir estrés, ansiedad e influir en los signos vitales. Se destaca la importancia de desarrollar investigaciones sobre el tema, debido a la escasez en la literatura de estudios, especialmente brasileños. Uso de risoterapia es necesario en hospital, por lo tanto, estudios como este ayudan a alentar a los profesionales a implementar esta estrategia y así mejorar la calidad de atención brindada.Descriptores: Risaterapia, Salud del Adulto, Salud del Anciano.

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Lindquist, Lee A., Anna Liggett, Ruqayyah Muhammad, Anne Seltzer, Kwang-Youn A. Kim, Becca Barish, Abby Wagner, and Vanessa Ramirez-Zohfeld. "Effects of Improv Training on Older Adults in a Long Term Care Facility." Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine 7 (January 2021): 233372142110161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211016111.

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Adjusting to life in a long term care facility (LTCF) can be challenging for older adults. Improvisation (shortened to improv) is a unique activity that encourages creativity and adaptive cognitive stimulation, through performing short scenes with content suggestions. We sought to assess whether improv training, in the form of a course entitled Humor Doesn’t Retire (HDR), could impact patient-centered outcomes in a LTCF. About 15 adults (mean age 83.6 years) living in a LTCF participated in the 8-week HDR course with pre and 1-month post mixed method surveys assessing validated Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) measures and qualitative open-ended responses. Participants experienced significant improvements in social isolation and perceived stress ( p < .05), and trend improvements in positive affect, self-efficacy, and anxiety. Participants described themes of increased attentiveness, becoming more relaxed, increased cognitive stimulation, and improved communication skills. In conclusion, LTCFs may want to consider offering improv training to positively improve the lives of older adult residents.

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Petrova, Tatiana V., and Gou Young Koh. "Biological functions of lymphatic vessels." Science 369, no. 6500 (July 9, 2020): eaax4063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4063.

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The general functions of lymphatic vessels in fluid transport and immunosurveillance are well recognized. However, accumulating evidence indicates that lymphatic vessels play active and versatile roles in a tissue- and organ-specific manner during homeostasis and in multiple disease processes. This Review discusses recent advances to understand previously unidentified functions of adult mammalian lymphatic vessels, including immunosurveillance and immunomodulation upon pathogen invasion, transport of dietary fat, drainage of cerebrospinal fluid and aqueous humor, possible contributions toward neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases, and response to anticancer therapies.

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Farahani, Ali Akbar Khomeyjani, and Zahra Abdollahi. "Incorporating Humor to Develop EFL Learner's Speaking Ability and Willingness to Communicate." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0901.26.

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The present research attempted at finding out whether using humor techniques in the classroom is effective in developing EFL learner`s speaking ability, and second to investigate the effectiveness of these techniques in developing EFL learner`s willingness to communicate. For reaching the aims of this study, Iranian adult intermediate EFL learners were chosen based on intact group sampling. First, all the participants took The Oxford Placement test as a homogeneity test. Then, a speaking ability and willingness to communicate pre-test was administered to measure the participants’ initial level of speaking ability and willingness to communicate. After that, when the experimental group learnt the speaking ability using humor techniques, the control group just experienced their routine method of teaching. After conducting 8 sessions of the course treatment, a post-test with the same content as the pre-test was conducted one by one for all the participants in order to measure their achievement in English speaking ability. For data analysis, SPSS software was used to run independent samples t-test to make comparisons between the experimental and the control groups’ test scores. The results indicated that there is a significant difference in level of 95% certainty in terms of speaking ability and 99% certainty in terms of willingness to communicate between the learners’ scores in experimental group which incorporate techniques of humor in EFL classrooms and the learners of the control group.

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Mietzner, Raphael, Christian Kade, Franziska Froemel, Diana Pauly, W. Daniel Stamer, Andreas Ohlmann, Joachim Wegener, Rudolf Fuchshofer, and Miriam Breunig. "Fasudil Loaded PLGA Microspheres as Potential Intravitreal Depot Formulation for Glaucoma Therapy." Pharmaceutics 12, no. 8 (July 27, 2020): 706. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12080706.

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Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitors allow for causative glaucoma therapy. Unfortunately, topically applied ROCK inhibitors suffer from high incidence of hyperemia and low intraocular bioavailability. Therefore, we propose the use of poly (lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microspheres as a depot formulation for intravitreal injection to supply outflow tissues with the ROCK inhibitor fasudil over a prolonged time. Fasudil-loaded microspheres were prepared by double emulsion solvent evaporation technique. The chemical integrity of released fasudil was confirmed by mass spectrometry. The biological activity was measured in cell-based assays using trabecular meshwork cells (TM cells), Schlemm’s canal cells (SC cells), fibroblasts and adult retinal pigment epithelium cells (ARPE-19). Cellular response to fasudil after its diffusion through vitreous humor was investigated by electric cell-substrate impedance sensing. Microspheres ranged in size from 3 to 67 µm. The release of fasudil from microspheres was controllable and sustained for up to 45 days. Released fasudil reduced actin stress fibers in TM cells, SC cells and fibroblasts. Decreased collagen gel contraction provoked by fasudil was detected in TM cells (~2.4-fold), SC cells (~1.4-fold) and fibroblasts (~1.3-fold). In addition, fasudil readily diffused through vitreous humor reaching its target compartment and eliciting effects on TM cells. No negative effects on ARPE-19 cells were observed. Since fasudil readily diffuses through the vitreous humor, we suggest that an intravitreal drug depot of ROCK inhibitors could significantly improve current glaucoma therapy particularly for patients with comorbid retinal diseases.

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Kukovynets, Yuliia, Vladyslava Akkurt, and Olena Velychenko. "RENDERING OF THE COMIC EFFECT WHEN TRANSLATING ENGLISH FICTION INTO UKRAINIAN." Naukovy Visnyk of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky: Linguistic Sciences 2021, no. 32 (2021): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2021-32-1.

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The article reveals the concept of comic effect, its types, techniques in fiction, as well as their differential features. In order to conduct a deep analysis of humor, the means of its transmission were identified and analyzed, that is, stylistic figures and artistic tropes. The author of the scientific paper revealed the essence of translation transformations, substantiated their role in conveying the comic effect in the literary text for children and adult readers, and also analyzed the features of conveying the comic effect using translation lexical, lexicalsemantic, grammatical, complex lexico-grammatical transformations and translation techniques.

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Snyder, Carol. "Books Without Boundaries: Jewish Children's Books in the Secular Arena." Judaica Librarianship 8, no. 1 (September 1, 1994): 100–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1240.

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Books with Jewish content are of universal interest and are important to individuals and to society. Through humor and personal experiences in writing and speaking about my Ike and Mama series, my middlegrade young-adult books, as well as my picture book, God Must Like Cookies, Too, I communicate to publishers, authors, and librarians the ways that my books have crossed over to the general marketplace. Why and how this came to be, and the newfound inclusion and interest of Jewish writers in the "multicultural" designation are also examined.

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Proyer, René T. "A Psycho-Linguistic Approach For Studying Adult Playfulness: A Replication and Extension Toward Relations With Humor." Journal of Psychology 148, no. 6 (February 10, 2014): 717–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2013.826165.

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Chorney, Jill MacLaren, Carrie Torrey, Ronald Blount, Christine E. McLaren, Wen-Pin Chen, and Zeev N. Kain. "Healthcare Provider and Parent Behavior and Children’s Coping and Distress at Anesthesia Induction." Anesthesiology 111, no. 6 (December 1, 2009): 1290–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/aln.0b013e3181c14be5.

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Background To date, no study has evaluated the impact of specific healthcare provider and parent behaviors on children's distress and coping during anesthesia induction. Method Extensive digital video data were collected on 293 two- to ten-yr-old children undergoing anesthesia induction with a parent present. Anesthesiologist, nurse, and parent behavior and children's distress and coping were coded using the Revised Preoperative Child-Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale administered using specialized coding software. Results Anesthesiologists and parents engaged in higher rates of most behaviors than nurses. Overall, adult emotion-focused behavior such as empathy and reassurance was significantly positively related to children's distress and negatively related to children's coping behaviors. Adult distracting behavior such as humor and distracting talk showed the opposite pattern. Medical reinterpretation by anesthesiologists was significantly positively related to children's coping behaviors, but the same behavior by parents was significantly positively related to children's distress. Conclusions The data presented here provide evidence for a relation between adult behaviors and children's distress and coping at anesthesia induction. These behaviors are trainable, and hence it is possible to test whether modifying physician behavior can influence child behavior in future studies.

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Høigilt, Jacob. "EGYPTIAN COMICS AND THE CHALLENGE TO PATRIARCHAL AUTHORITARIANISM." International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 1 (January 20, 2017): 111–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743816001161.

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AbstractAdult comics are a new medium in the Arab world. This article is the first in-depth study of their emergence and role within Arab societies. Focused on Egypt, it shows how adult comics have boldly addressed political and social questions. Seeing them as part of a broader cultural efflorescence in Egypt, I argue that, against patriarchal authoritarianism, adult comics have expressed an alternative ideology of tolerance, civic rights and duties, individualism, creativity, and criticism of power. Specifically, they present a damning critique of Egypt's authoritarian order, as well as of the marginalization of women and broader gender dynamics in Egyptian society. Through frank humor, a playful style, and explicit graphics, they give voice to the concerns of young Egyptians. Connecting comics to other art forms such as music, graffiti, and political cartoons, I situate them within a critical cultural movement that came to the fore with the Egyptian uprising of 2011.

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Гордієнко-Митрофанова Ія, Кобзєва Юлія, and Саута Сергій. "Psycholinguistic Meanings of Playfulness." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 6, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2019.6.1.gor.

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The aim of the article is to describe psycholinguistic meanings of the word-stimulus “playfulness” in the linguistic world-image of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. The main method of the conducted research was the psycholinguistic experiment. The sample according to the criteria “gender” (males and females – included both age groups) and “age” (18-35 and 36-60) included 1,600 respondents with 400 people in each sub-group of respondents. The overall number of reactions to stimulus “playfulness” comprised 1,600 associative reactions with 475 unique associations including word combinations and sentences, where 159 reactions have frequency over 1,316 individual associations, and 0 refusals. The semantic interpretation of the results of the free association test made it possible to single out 19 psycholinguistic meanings, 12 out of them accounted for more than 1%: 1) “cheerful and joyful state”, 2) “intention to attract the attention of the opposite or one’s own sex”, 3) “child-like spontaneity”, 4) “agility, physical activity of an animal”, 5) “daring and provocative behavior”, 6) “agility, physical behavior of a human being”, 7) “ease”, 8) “changeability”, 9) “behavior during a sexual intercourse”, 10) “carelessness”, 11) “mental activity”, 12) “deliberate deceit”. Taking into account the respondents’ verbal behavior, the following components of playfulness were identified: flirting, impishness, humor, fugue (eccentricity), ease, imagination. 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Xiaodong, Yue, Liang Chunle, Miao Junnan, Zhang Yakun, Yuan Zhenzhen, Jia Jianyi, Xia Shuang, Qin Huanli, Li Mengyuan, and Wang Chenxi. "A Comparative Study of Adult Playfulness, Humor Styles and Subjective Happiness Among Hong Kong and Guangzhou University Students." Psychology of China 3, no. 6 (2021): 1435–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35534/pc.0311162.

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Shibata, Teppei, Yoriko Takahashi, Ayako Okamoto, Hiroshi Sasaki, and Kazuko Kitagawa. "An Adult Case of Fulminant Mumps Keratitis With Positive Viral RNA in Aqueous Humor Detected by RT-PCR." Cornea 35, no. 4 (April 2016): 569–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ico.0000000000000763.

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Gollapudi, Aparna. "Satire, Smut, and the Child Actor in Garrick’s Lilliput." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 34 (December 2022): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0001.

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ABSTRACT This article focuses on the ideological as well as the performative underpinnings of David Garrick’s twin comic goals in the afterpiece Lilliput (1756)—ridiculing modern folly and raising a laugh with the play’s central dirty joke. It first considers the deployment of children as a tool for satirizing adult folly and then proceeds to an examination of Garrick’s lewd humor at the expense of the child actress’s body. In studying the mechanisms of the salutary as well as the salacious laughter the afterpiece aims to evoke, we get important insights into eighteenth-century notions of childhood and can begin to reconstruct the presence of child actors in the period’s stage history.

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Reifman, Alan, Mykaela Ursua-Benitez, Sylvia Niehuis, Emma Willis-Grossmann, and McKinley Thacker. "#Happyanniversary: Gender and age differences in spouses’ and partners’ Twitter greetings." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 14, no. 1 (July 2, 2020): 54–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v14i1.3799.

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Research and theory suggest that men, on average, are inhibited from expressing vulnerable emotions such as love, whereas women do so more readily. Based on theories of gender socialization and social media uses and gratifications, we conducted a content analysis of gender differences in the domain of wedding and other relationship anniversary greetings delivered on Twitter (N = 414 tweets). We tested for gender as well as age differences in three areas: symbolic (emoji), photographic, and verbal content. As hypothesized, women were more likely to use emojis than were men. Most tweeters who included photographs in their greetings used photos of themselves and their partners today, although some subgroups of men and women preferred photos from their weddings. Age-related differences were clear: young-adult tweeters preferred symbolic emojis to deliver their anniversary greetings, whereas older/middle-aged adults opted for verbal/textual communication, particularly in the areas of tribute and inspirational statements and humor. Results are discussed in terms of gender-role socialization, social and cultural norms, and modes of communication (e.g., written letters and notes, smartphone texts) during different historical eras.

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GÜLER, Kahraman, and Çağla TATAR. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND COPING STYLE VARIABLES IN ADULT INDIVIDUALS." ATLAS JOURNAL 7, no. 43 (July 29, 2021): 2112–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31568/atlas.738.

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The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between coping styles and cognitive flexibility variables in adult individuals and whether these two variables change according to gender, age, marital status, educational status and socioeconomic levels. The research is structured according to the scanning model.The sample of the study consisted of a total of 309 participants, including 261 randomly selected women and 48 men living in Bartın province. In the study, data were obtained using the" coping styles scale“, the” cognitive flexibility scale "and the" Personal Information Form". The data were analyzed using the SPSS 25 statistical program. Pearson Correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and t test for independent samples were used to analyze the data. As a result of the analyzes made for the purpose of the research; while gender and marital status characteristics led to significant differences in cognitive flexibility and coping styles, age, educational status and monthly income characteristics did not create a significant difference. In addition, it was concluded that the independent variables of cognitive flexibility of planning, behavioral disengagement, denial, and humor predicted the dependent variable of cognitive flexibility and the variance was 12%. The findings were discussed by researching the relevant literature. Key Words: Cognitive Flexibility, Coping Styles, Adult

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Belecky-Adams, Teri Louise, Ruben Adler, and David C. Beebe. "Bone morphogenetic protein signaling and the initiation of lens fiber cell differentiation." Development 129, no. 16 (August 15, 2002): 3795–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.129.16.3795.

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Previous studies showed that the retina produces factors that promote the differentiation of lens fiber cells, and identified members of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) families as potential fiber cell differentiation factors. A possible role for the bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) is suggested by the presence of BMP receptors in chicken embryo lenses. We have now observed that phosphorylated SMAD1, an indicator of signaling through BMP receptors, localizes to the nuclei of elongating lens fiber cells. Transduction of chicken embryo retinas and/or lenses with constructs expressing noggin, a secreted protein that binds BMPs and prevents their interactions with their receptors, delayed lens fiber cell elongation and increased cell death in the lens epithelium. In an in vitro explant system, in which chicken embryo or adult bovine vitreous humor stimulates chicken embryo lens epithelial cells to elongate into fiber-like cells, these effects were inhibited by noggin-containing conditioned medium, or by recombinant noggin. BMP2, 4, or 7 were able to reverse the inhibition caused by noggin. Lens cell elongation in epithelial explants was stimulated by treatment with FGF1 or FGF2, alone or in combination with BMP2, but not to the same extent as vitreous humor. These data indicate that BMPs participate in the differentiation of lens fiber cells, along with at least one additional, and still unknown factor.

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