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Handbook of Humor Research - Volume 1: Basic Issues (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Handbook of Humor Research - Volume 1: Basic Issues (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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About a decade ago we edited The Psychology of Humor. Besides the
summary chapter and bibliography of about 400 items, the book
contained eleven original papers that represented the state of
knowledge at that time. We confess that it was not easy to fill
that volume with first-rate contributions. In a few instances we
invited contributors only on the basis of having heard through the
grapevine that they were doing interesting work on humor. Our
sources proved reliable and we were pleased with the results. We
even made new friends as a result of these blind invitations. But
the fact remains that in the early 1970s there was only a handful
of social scientists studying humor and laughter. The history of
humor research prior to the 1970s can also be characterized in
terms of the short-term commitment to investigating humor among
those who did venture out and try their hand at designing humor
studies. For reasons that remain unclear, many investigators
published only one or two humor studies before abandoning the area
in favor of some other research domain. We have the impression that
for decades social scientists have been very intrigued by the idea
of studying humor. Psychologists have suspected for a long time
that humor somehow is very important in the lives of people. We
find laughter and humor occurring almost wherever we find people
engaged in social interaction.
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