Overview
- Investigates humour in social, cultural, political, and psychological contexts
- Points towards new directions in humor research
- Presents global humour research
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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.
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.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Humour in Cultural Contexts
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Humour in History and Politics
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Humour in the Workplace
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Humour over the Lifespan
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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
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.
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: Springer 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
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