Humor Content Preferences and the Relief of Experimentally Aroused Aggression

Autor:	Frank J. Prerost, Robert E. Brewer
Rok vydání:	1977
Předmět:	genetic structures Social Psychology Induction procedure Aggression eye diseases Developmental psychology Arousal fluids and secretions medicine sense organs medicine.symptom Mood adjective checklist Content (Freudian dream analysis) Psychology
Zdroj:	The Journal of Social Psychology. 103:225-231
ISSN:	1940-1183 0022-4545
DOI:	10.1080/00224545.1977.9713321
Popis:	Summary Previous research on the relationship between humor and aggression produced contradictory and inconclusive results. The present study differentiated effects of threatening, aggressive humor from those of non-threatening, aggressive humor, and determined that humor preferences are affected by conditions of aggression arousal. One hundred twenty female university students participated in the experiment proper, and 30 provided data on the effectiveness of the Aggressiveness Induction Procedure (AIP). Two groups were exposed to the AIP, and two were exposed to a Neutral Procedure (NP). One group in each condition (AIP and NP) rated aggressive, threatening jokes, and the other group rated aggressive, nonthreatening jokes, for their humor. All Ss then completed a mood adjective checklist. The AIP was successful in arousing aggression. Results showed that aggressive, nonthreatening humor was more effective in reducing induced aggressive mood-states than was aggressive, threatening humor. Further, AIP Ss ...
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