Are they funny? Associations between instructors' humor and student emotions in undergraduate lab courses.

ABSTRACT: Instructor use of humor can positively affect students' educational experiences by increasing students' comfort in the classroom and making the instructor seem more approachable. Humor can also elicit emotional responses, which in turn may influence students' engagement in the course and their relationship with the instructor. However, students may interpret instructor humor differently, resulting in varied effects. The present study examined how instructors' use of verbal humor relates to students' emotions about their lab course. In addition, we examined whether researcher-identified humor aligned with student reports to support valid inferences about instructor humor. To accomplish this, trained researchers analyzed classroom audio recordings of instructor talk in 48 lab courses to iden

SUBMITTER: Allen ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12687607 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature