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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Two Sides of the Same Quip: Humor Appeals Can Indirectly Reduce Reactance via Perceived Humor but Simultaneously Increase Reactance Independently of Perceived Humor.

Adam S Richards, Nicholas S Curcio, Sydney G Hall

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Adam S RichardsDepartment of Communication Studies, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3721-5622
Nicholas S CurcioDepartment of Communication Studies, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA.
Sydney G HallDepartment of Communication Studies, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed whether a humor appeal can reduce the degree to which freedom threatening language elicits psychological reactance and subsequently reduces positive vaccination attitude. A 2 (freedom threatening language: low vs. high) × 2 (humor appeal: absent vs. present) between-subjects experiment was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of social media posts about vaccination using a sample of people eligible for vaccination (

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COVID-19freedom threathumorpsychological reactancevaccination

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PMID41301312
PMCPMC12649629

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