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The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research

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Editors:
  1. Elisabeth Vanderheiden

    1. Global Institute for Transcultural Research, Römerberg, Germany

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  2. Claude-Hélène Mayer

    1. Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
      Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

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  • Investigates humour in social, cultural, political, and psychological contexts
  • Points towards new directions in humor research
  • Presents global humour research

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Editorial: The Handbook of Humour Research—Psychological, Cultural and Social Perspectives

    • Elisabeth Vanderheiden, Claude-Hélène Mayer
    Pages 1-12

  3. Humour in Cultural Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Predicting Self-Esteem Using Humor Styles: A Cross-Cultural Study

      • Julie Aitken Schermer, Eva Boyanova Papazova, Maria Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Radosław Rogoza, Joonha Park, Christopher Marcin Kowalski et al.
      Pages 15-39

    3. The Use of Humour to Deal with Uncomfortable Moments in Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Approach

      • Kerry Mullan, Christine Béal
      Pages 41-66

    4. Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration: A Case Study of Adolescent German Turkish Descendants in Germany

      • Yesim Kakalic, Stephanie Schnurr
      Pages 67-87

    5. The Position of Humour in Social Crises: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at?

      • Ayşe Aslı Sezgin, Tuğba Yolcu
      Pages 89-111

    6. Humour as Cultural Capital in Transitions

      • Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar
      Pages 113-130

    7. Nigerian Cultural Concept of Humour and its Use as a Coping Strategy

      • Felix-Kingsley Obialo
      Pages 131-148

    8. Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study

      • Onwu Inya, Blessing Inya
      Pages 149-170

  6. Humour over the Lifespan

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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About this book

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. 

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Global Institute for Transcultural Research, Römerberg, Germany

    Elisabeth Vanderheiden

  • Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Claude-Hélène Mayer

  • Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

    Claude-Hélène Mayer

About the editors

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-Hélène 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 Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research

  • Editors: Elisabeth Vanderheiden, Claude-Hélène Mayer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78280-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78279-5Published: 17 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78282-5Published: 17 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78280-1Published: 16 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 517

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Positive Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cultural Studies

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