Humor  -  Herbert M. Lefcourt

The Psychology of Living Buoyantly

KORTE INHOUD

Using anecdotes to illustrate his empirical results, Lefcourt (University of Waterloo, Ontario) examines humor as a mechanism for coping with adversity. Chapters address topics like: the experience of humor in everyday life; early conceptions of humor in religion, medicine, philosophy, and psychology; the persuasiveness of humor; variations in the types and definitions of humor; the effects of stress on emotion and health; social cohesion; physiological stress responses; and, sex and humor. Annotation copyr...
2001 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2001 Uitgever: Springer 226 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0306464071 ISBN-13: 9780306464072