... of community audiences, and of academic audiences outside of music. I summarize the tools and techniques that I have found to be useful for connecting with these audiences: visual aids in the form of PowerPoint slides; collaborative creative activity; humor; and live performance. audience visual aids humor...

.... This work contributes to the streams of research on brand humor, anthropomorphism, and consumer–brand relationships. It also provides actionable implications by demonstrating a novel antecedent to consumer–brand connection and the boundaries within which these positive effects are expected to occur. humor...

... to burst and collapse. Examination the next day disclosed the detached epithelium had sloughed off completely. The epithelial defect healed gradually over 10 days. Wound burping to release aqueous humor after the corneal epithelium has healed over the surgical incision can result in corneal epithelial...

... a methodological argument for the study of joking within the history of medicine, presenting “Professional Notes” as a powerful example of the role humour has played in shaping medical culture. humor professionalization medical racism reproduction William Osler “Joke on Dr. Molson. W.O.” This annotation...

... diagnosis and improper therapy for intraocular infections usually result in poor prognosis. Due to limitations of conventional culture and polymerase chain reaction methods, most causative pathogens cannot be identified from vitreous humor (VH) or aqueous humor (AH) samples with limited volume. Methods...

... of social norms in TV and cinema is a well-known source of humor and catharsis, and researchers in digital humanities may benefit from the automatic identification of social norm violations. In this article, we introduce a novel methodology for identifying and analyzing the violation of social norms...

... Background and Objectives Ageism is oftentimes sugarcoated within humor. Paper birthday cards are 1 delivery approach in which ageist messages are perpetuated and reinforced through humor. Research Design and Methods A convenience sample of birthday cards (k = 227), all indicating a decade...

... facing many news and social media platforms. To better understand it, we examined whether humorous content reduced online incivility and whether the (in)civility of another user might mitigate or amplify this effect in two experiments (Study 1, N = 122; Study 2, N = 208). Participants...

...Camille J. Saucier; Nathan Walter Despite the elusive and somewhat imprecise nature of the construct, humor has been repeatedly used in persuasive contexts. An extended content analysis of advertising in the U.S. found that approximately one out of every five-television ads uses a humor appeal...

... of conceptual replications for scientific progress . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 66 , 93 – 99 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.002 Eisend M. ( 2009 ). A meta-analysis of humor in advertising . Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science , 37 , 191 – 203 . doi:10.1007/s11747-008...

... illness, to exhaustion from standing in queues—all correlated to the sudden lack of cash brought about by demonetization ( Ibrahim, 2018 ). Notwithstanding such tragedies, Indian Internet users turned to humor as a way of dealing with the crisis, aligning with previous observations about memes and humor...

... to match the high intellect observed in successful comedians according to Greengross et al. (2012) . Pomona College's Faculty Research Grant What are the neuroanatomical correlates of a sense of humor? Are there structural anatomical differences in the brains of individuals with an objectively...

... with them, and this is particularly true in considering what others will find funny. In other words, to accomplish their social goals, individuals can engage in mentalizing in deciding whether to share humorous content. H3: Greater mentalizing activity will be associated with increased sharing of political...

... Humor has been considered an effective emotion regulation strategy, and some behavioral studies have examined its superior effects on negative emotion regulation. However, its neural mechanisms remain unknown. Our functional magnetic resonance imaging study directly compared the emotion regulation...

...Joanna von Hofsten; Johan Ringlander; Peter Norberg; Madeleine Zetterberg; Maria Andersson; Magnus Lindh; Tomas Bergström From the aqueous humor sample, DNA was extracted with the MagNA Pure LC Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany). No amplification by PCR or other...

... argument that political satire—with its humor, focus on internal contradictions, and lack of journalistic principles regarding objectivity and facticity—may be an effective antidote to populism’s success. Using a representative panel survey that functions as a natural experiment in the context...

.../pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The discipline of communication has contributed a number of theories and models to the study of humor. The purpose of this paper is to review seven of those approaches: Gruner’s ‘laughing = winning theory,’ du Pré’s surprise liberation theory, Meyer’s...

... a humor-paradigm in narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) patients with cataplexy (muscle atonia triggered by emotions) and controls. Methods The fMRI-humor-paradigm consisted of short movies (25/30 with a humorous punchline; 5/30 without a humorous punchline [but with similar build-up/anticipation]) rated...

... a number of offenses against truth that the late night comedians counter in an attempt to rescue not just particular facts but the very notion of truth. Truth Post-Truth Humor Comedy Journalism Jean Baudrillard (1994) is well known for arguing that we have entered a period that has otherwise gone...

...Sveinung Sandberg; Sébastien Tutenges Here we aim to introduce and make use of humor theory in a study of drug dealers. We adopt an open-ended understanding of humor as interactions that are engaged in with the intent or effect of generating amusement or laughter. Laughter is not necessarily a sign...