Discussion Questions-- Week 15b (December 10)


1. What is humor?

2. How might popular culture affect perceptions of humor?

3. How does one study/operationalize humor?

4. What are problems with retrospective, self-report analyses of humor?

5. How is humor adaptive/maladaptive?

6. How would you expect humor to affect childhood development?

7. How would you expect humor to relate to attachment styles?

8. What other individual differences might predict humor styles?

9. How might humor fit into the interdependence model?

10. How might humor styles vary cross culturally? Across genders? Across socioeconomic class? Across other demographics? Are there universals to be expected?