title: Perception of humor in cartoon riddles by adults with intellectual disability.
abstract: Young adults with intellectual disability, 15 with IQs of 55 to 75 and 15 with IQs of 40 to 54, rated 12 cartoon riddles of six levels of difficulty. Mirth and comprehension were also scored. Analyses indicated that participants considered the jokes funny but there was a strong tendency to respond to the visual aspects of the jokes rather than to the auditory aspects.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002359:Cartoons as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D013067:Speech Perception; D014796:Visual Perception; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic