Undertakers' sense of humor.
A group of 60 middle-aged morticians at a professional seminar in the midwestern USA who completed a multidimensional sense of humor scale scored significantly lower than another group of 136 men from other occupations. The difference between the two groups appeared almost entirely on scale items having to do with humor generation or creativity.
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Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. jthorson@unomaha.edu
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D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009027:Mortuary Practice; D010551:Personality; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic