Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction

Wilibald Ruch
Foreword and overview. The sense of humor: A new look at an old concept

Rod A. Martin
Approaches to the sense of humor: A historical review

Part II. Current conceptual approaches

Kenneth H. Craik--Aaron P. Ware
Humor and personality in everyday life

Victor Raskin
The sense of humor and the truth

Willibald Ruch--Franz-Josef Hehl
A two-mode model of humor appreciation: its relation
to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality.

Peter Derks--Rosemary E. Staley--Martie G. Haselton
"Sense" of humor: Perception, intelligence, or expertise?

Nickolas Kuiper--Rod A. Martin
Is sense of humor a positive personality characteristic?

Herbert Lefcourt--Stacy Thomas
Humor and stress revisited

Willibald Ruch--Gabriele Köhler
A temperament approach to humor

Part III. Intraindividual differences

Lambert Deckers
Influence of mood on humor

Doris Bergen
Development of the sense of humor

Part IV. Group differences

Martin Lampert--Susan M. Ervin-Tripp
Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor
at the end of the 20th century

Giovannantonio Forabosco
The ill side of humor: Pathological conditions and sense of humor

Christie Davies
The dog that didn't bark in the night: A new sociological approach to
the cross cultural study of humor

Part V. Causes of inter- and intra-individual differences

Beth Manke
Genetic and environmental contributions to children's interpersonal humor

Ofra Nevo--Haim Aharonson--Avigdor Klingman
The development and evaluation of a systematic program for
improving sense of humor

Appendix

Willibald Ruch
Tools used for diagnosing humor states and traits

Bibliography

Author index

Subject index

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