This Handbook provides new perspectives on humour from transdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humour as a resource from different socio-cultural and psychological viewpoints and brings together authors from different cultures, social contexts and countries. The book will enable researchers and practitioners alike to unlock new research findings which give new directions for contemporary and future humour research. By employing transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives, the volume further discusses humour in regard to different cultural and political contexts, humour over the lifespan, in therapy and counselling, in pedagogical settings, in medicine and the workspace. The contributions also highlight the connections between humour and the COVID-19 pandemic and promise new inspiring insights. Researchers, practitioners and students in the fields of industrial and organisational psychology, positive psychology, organisational studies, future studies, health and occupational science and therapy, emotion sciences, management, leadership and human resource management will find the contributions highly topical, insightful and applicable to practice.
Edited by:
Elisabeth Vanderheiden,
Claude-Helene Mayer
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9783030782795
ISBN 10: 3030782794
Pages: 517
Publication Date: 17 September 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Humour as a Resource - Transdisciplinary Perspectives: Elisabeth Vanderheiden & Claude-Helene Mayer Part 1 Humour in Cultural Contexts 2 Humor and the dynamics of cross-cultural interactionPiotr Pluta 3 Predicting Self-Esteem using Humor Styles:A Cross Cultural StudyJulie Aitken Schermer, Eva Papazova, Maria Magdalena Kwiat-kowska, Radoslaw Rogoza, Joonha Park, Christopher Marcin Kowalski), Marija Brankovic, Marta Doroszuk, Truong Khanh Ha, Dzintra Ilisko, Sadia Malik, Samuel, Gines Navarro-Carrillo, Os-car Oviedo-Trespalacios, Jorge Torres-Marin, Anna Wlodarczyk, Sibele Aquino, Tatiana Volkodav and Georg Krammer 4 Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration. A Case Study of Adolescent German-Turkish Descendants in GermanyYesim Kakalic & Stephanie Schnurr 5 The Position of Humour in Social Crisis: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at?Ayse Asli Sezgin 6 Humour as a Positive Cultural Capital in Transitions Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar 7 Nigeria Cultural Concept of Humour and its Use as a Coping StrategyFelix-Kingsley Obialo 8 Recontextualising Recession in Nigeria: Pragma-discursive Ex-amination of Online-based Recession HumourOnwu & Blessing Inya Part 2 Humour in History and Politics 9 Humor as a Defense Mechanism: Dismantling Holocaust Sym-bols and Icons in Israeli Culture Liat Steir-Livny 10 Geopolitics of Humor and Development in Nepal and Afghani-stanJennifer Fluri and Rupak Shrestha 11 Humour and Laughter in the Political ContextMaria Belen Alvarado Ortega Part 3 Humour at the Workplace 12 Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work, a Positive Psychology PerspectiveRudolf M Oosthuizen 13 Humour as a Coping Mechanism in Remote Working Spaces during the Covid19 Lockdown Claude-Helene Mayer Part 4 Humour over the Life Span 14 The Value of Humor in Romantic RelationshipsMaria Nicoleta Turliuc, Octav Sorin Candel and Lorena Antono-vici 15 Using Humor to Navigate Traumatic Life Events: The Relation-ships Among Humor, Positivity, and ResilienceMelissa Bekelja Wanzer 16 The Benefit of a Lifespan Developmental Approach for Under-standing Humor Appreciation and Function Across CulturesJennifer T. Stanley & Jennifer R. Turner Part 5 Humour in the Context of Medicine 17 Humor in Psychiatry: Lessons From Neuroscience, Psycho-pathology and Treatment ResearchPhilipp Berger, Florian Bitsch and Irina Falkenberg 18 Humorous Amateur Dubbing in the Ward. The Positive Effect of Non-professional Dubbing on Hospitalised ChildrenMargherita Dore, Laura Vagnoli, Francesca Addarii, Elena Amore and Rosanna Martin 19 Is it Time for Positive Psychology to be More Positive about the Wide-Ranging Potential of Humour and Laughter?Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky and Gulcan Garip Part 6 Humour in the Contexts of Counselling and Therapy 20 Humour in Psychotherapy: A Trajectory Through the Times Aakriti Malik 21 If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. - Humour as a Resource in Life CrisesElisabeth Vanderheiden Part 7 Humour in Pedagogical Contexts 22 Humour in Teaching Materials for Teaching Spanish as a For-eign Language: Analysis and Proposals Gloria Bursgens & Maria Isabel Pozzo 23 Humour as a Resource in Adult Education - Results of a Survey in Adult Education from a Positive Psychology 2.0 PerspectiveElisabeth Vanderheiden 24 Humour in Mathematics Teaching: a study in Portugal and SpainLuis Menezes Part 8 Humour in the Arts 25 An Empirical Examination of Walter Becker, in which Psycho-biography, Positive Psychology 2.0, and Cross-Cultural Analy-sis are Utilized to Determine If and How the Subject Generat-ed Meaning-in-Life and Positivity Across His LifespanJames L. Kelley 26 Examining the Intersection of Humor and Creativity as the Key to Perseverance in IdeationKathleen M. Sullivan and Betsy Tuma 27 OutlookElisabeth Vanderheiden & Claude-Helene Mayer
Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, vocational and civic education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation. Claude-Helene Mayer (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is Professor in I/O Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Adjunct Professor at the Europa Universitat Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Reviews for The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research
This handbook is intended to be a primary reference book on humour from social, cultural and psychological perspectives ... . Each contribution is valuable and adds to the volume's diversity, thereby providing an interesting read. ... This book offers high content quality with great expository clarity that contributes to an easy, straightforward and instructive reading. ... In my opinion, it represents an interesting reading for all scholars and laypeople interested in the field of humour. (Alberto Dionigi, The European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 8 (4), December, 2020)
