Humor response as related to violation of expectancies and to stimulus intensity in a weight-judgment task.
In a study of humor disguised as a psychophysical task, 60 subjects judged an initial series of 10 weights which was either light or heavy and then a shift weight which was either light, medium, or heavy. Degree of humorous response varied with the discrepancy of the shift weight and its absolute magnitude.
D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007845:Laughter; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012737:Sex Factors; D012904:Smiling; D014892:Weight Perception; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic