Humor Response as Related to Violation of Expectancies and to Stimulus Intensity in a Weight-Judgment Task
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 41 (2) , 673-674
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1975.41.2.673
Abstract
In a study of humor disguised as a psychophysical task, 60 subjects judged an initial series of 10 weights which was either light or heavy and then a shift weight which was either light, medium, or heavy. Degree of humorous response varied with the discrepancy of the shift weight and its absolute magnitude.Keywords
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