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• Author(s): Herbert M. Lefcourt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EmotionsIn his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being....

• Author(s): V. Raskin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsGOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity,...

• Author(s): Daniel Derrin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: HistoriographyThis handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent hu...

• Author(s): Herbert M. Lefcourt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralThis monograph reflects a culmination of influences. Over a decade ago, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Car...

• Author(s): Amy Kenny • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHumorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors f...

• Author(s): Daniel Derrin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: HistoriographyFrom the Back CoverThis handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understa...

• Author(s): Alan Roberts • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Pivot • BISAC: Mind & BodyFrom the Back CoverHumour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question 'What is humo...

• Author(s): Nicholas Holm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - Genres - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh bu...

• Author(s): S. Lockyer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: DiscriminationHumour is pervasive in contemporary culture, and is generally celebrated as a public good. Yet there are times when it is felt to produce...

• Author(s): V. Raskin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsGOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity,...

• Author(s): Amy Kenny • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHumorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors f...

• Author(s): King-Fai Tam • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back CoverThis book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader d...

• Author(s): P. E. McGhee • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EmotionsProgress in understanding humor and developing a comprehensive, testable theory of humor has been slow in coming. Fortunately, we do not need to have a...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): King-Fai Tam • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back CoverThis book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader d...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): J. Marques • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Management - GeneralA unique, non-traditional, Organizational Behavioral-oriented book that is geared toward flexible leadership, and that offers a ser...

• Author(s): Majken Jul Sørensen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation a...

• Author(s): J. Marques • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Management - GeneralA unique, non-traditional, Organizational Behavioral-oriented book that is geared toward flexible leadership, and that offers a ser...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis anthology of studies is a follow-up to Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody. ...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis collection of original chapters reflects the increasing interest over the past few decades in the relationship between political...

• Author(s): Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsFrom the Back CoverThis edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary an...

• Author(s): Tabea Scheel | Christine Gockel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyThis 2nd edition provides a comprehensive, updated review of current knowledge on the adaptive and...

• Author(s): Conal Condren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for gr...

• Author(s): Tabea Scheel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive ...

• Author(s): Conal Condren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for gr...

• Author(s): Herbert M. Lefcourt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EmotionsIn his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being....

• Author(s): P. E. McGhee • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EmotionsAbout a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book contained eleven origin...

• Author(s): R. Dekker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralThe humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books ...

• Author(s): Jessica Milner Davis • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: CriminologyFrom the Back CoverThis book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work ac...

• Author(s): Mordechai Gordon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsFrom the Back CoverThis book is a philosophical investigation of the significance of humor and laughter, examining i...

• Author(s): Jessica Milner Davis • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: CriminologyFrom the Back CoverThis book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work ac...

• Author(s): A. Dagnes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismConservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal...

• Author(s): S. Schnurr • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: LeadershipEmploying a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performan...

• Author(s): Barbara Plester • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyFrom the Back CoverThis book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that...

• Author(s): Barbara Plester • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyFrom the Back CoverThis book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that...