Locating eight comic styles in basic and broad concepts of humor: Findings from self-reports and behavior tests

摘要: The aim of the present study is to locate eight comic styles in basic and broad concepts humor, namely temperamental basis sense humor appreciation, creation. represent individual differences how people display differentiating between fun, (benevolent) nonsense, wit, irony, satire, sarcasm, cynicism. Two samples 234 223 German-speaking adults completed Comic Style Markers, standard self-report measure assess styles, as well self-reports cheerfulness, seriousness, bad mood (Sample 1) or behavior tests appreciation (funniness aversiveness incongruity-resolution, sexual humor) creation quantity quality 2). results showed that could be uniquely meaningfully located these concepts. Specifically, spanned affective component from cheerfulness mood. Furthermore, findings supported convergent validity nonsense wit scales they related creation, respectively. This thus contributes growing field psychology by extending nomological network general tendency enjoy engage providing a behavioral validation Markers.