Motivation in Humor

This is not a funny book-but it is the rst to bring together contemporary experimental studies on humor. The fourteen scholarly papers included here mark an important breakthrough in this vital, complex, and largely unexplored subject.Motivation in Humor shows that humor is researchable by scienti c methods and indicates the dif culties involved in such work. Here are samples of the important parameters of behavior and attempts at de ning the factors that in uence the humor response as well as the effects of this response upon subsequent emotional states.Levine, Jacob is the author of 'Motivation in Humor' with ISBN 9780202250595 and ISBN 0202250598.