Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations.

Ilona Papousek, Christian Rominger, Elisabeth M Weiss, Corinna M Perchtold, Andreas Fink, Kurt Feyaerts

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Article in Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Differential effects of stress-related and stress-unrelated humor in remitted depression.Scientific reports · 2022
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Neural representation of mixed feelings during real-time processing of negative words in pun-humor.Communications biology · 2025
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Patient-to-Patient Interactions During the Pain Management Programme: The Role of Humor and Venting in Building a Socially Supportive Community.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022
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Adolescents' Exposure to and Experiences of Weight Stigma During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2021
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Motivational Factors in the Typical Display of Humor and Creative Potential: The Case of Malevolent Creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2020
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6 authors.

Ilona PapousekInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-6620-0318

Christian RomingerInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Elisabeth M WeissInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Corinna M PerchtoldInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Andreas FinkInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Kurt FeyaertsDepartment of Linguistics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary study examined the structure of humor creation in the specific context of efforts to positively reappraise stressful situations for effective coping. In a sample of

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Cognitive reappraisalCorpus analysisFluencyFunninessHumor creationLinguistic mechanisms

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PMID37554948

DOI10.1007/s12144-019-00296-9

PMCPMC10404570

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