Broadening Humor: Comic Styles Differentially Tap into Temperament, Character, and Ability.

ABSTRACT: The present study introduces eight comic styles (i.e., fun, humor, nonsense, wit, irony, satire, sarcasm, and cynicism) and examines the validity of a set of 48 marker items for their assessment, the Comic Style Markers (CSM). These styles were originally developed to describe literary work and are used here to describe individual differences. Study 1 examines whether the eight styles can be distinguished empirically, in self- and other-reports, and in two languages. In different samples of altogether more than 1500 adult participants, the CSM was developed and evaluated with respect to internal consistency, homogeneity, test-retest reliability, factorial validity, and construct and criterion validity. Internal consistency was sufficiently high, and the median test-retest reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Ruch W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5778606 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature