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The Sense of Humor - Explorations of a Personality Characteristic

English · Paperback / Softback

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This volume brings together the current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components. It provides both an overview of historic approaches and a compendium of current humor inventories and humor traits that have been studied. Presenting the only available overview and analysis of this significant facet of human behavior, this volume will interest researchers from the fields of humor and personality studies as well as those interested in the clinical or abstract implications of the subject.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Willibald Ruch, geboren 1956 in Kärnten, studierte Konzertgitarre und Psychologie. Nach einem Studienaufenthalt an der Miami University in Oxford/Ohio (USA) war er Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Physiologische Psychologie der Universität Düsseldorf, Stipendiat im Heisenberg-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und arbeitete im Labor von Paul Ekman an der University of California/San Francisco (USA). 1999 wurde er außerplanmäßiger Professor an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. Von 2000 2002 war Willibald Ruch Senior Lecturer für individual differences/motivation & emotion an der School of Psychology, Queen s University of Belfast. 2002 erfolgte der Ruf zum ordentlichen Professor am Psychologischen Institut der Universität Zürich. Willibald Ruchs Forschungsschwerpunkte betreffen Themen der Differenziellen Psychologie und der Diagnostik, insbesondere der Positiven Psychologie und die Erforschung des Humors.

Product details

Assisted by Willibal Ruch (Editor), Willibald Ruch (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2007
 
EAN 9783110198294
ISBN 978-3-11-019829-4
No. of pages 498
Dimensions 155 mm x 30 mm x 230 mm
Weight 742 g
Illustrations w. figs.
Series Humor Research
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Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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