Talk:Humor styles

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The best way to improve this article would be to include other methods of researching humor styles. Other surveys to compare and contrast against the HSQ.The methods used in other surveys must be measuring reliable traits with validity. Expanding on differences found between men and women in the HSQ would also be a good addition.

Wvinson10 (talk) 21:19, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply] 

This page is total B.S. This page is just to promote their own theory - no basis in standard personality psychology best practices. This is not common standard opinion on humour from the psychological sciences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.76.67.233 (talk) 22:31, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I've been slowly adding information to this page but I just wanted to give a heads up on a few things I'll be adding by the end of the week: some examples of the items on the humor styles questionnaire, how each humor style relates to other personality traits, outcomes and implications (health, well-being, etc) for each style of humor, and a description of a few other measurements and scales that examine humor. Majobc11 (talk) 23:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Majobc11, this article looks good to me! It is overall very clear, well-organized, interesting, and easy to read. The only thing that I was a little confused about was in the affiliative subsection: it seems like maybe both examples of items ought to be reverse-scored? From my understanding of the topic, if affiliative humor improves relationships etc., then it would probably also include things like "joking around with friends."

I was also wondering if this model with the four humor styles was the only model on this topic, or if there was any kind of controversy within the field regarding humor? Are there any competing theories about how humor styles might differ for different people? Are there any other "parts" of humor that might not be included in this model, or is it currently only the self-other and benevolent-malevolent factors? I am also thinking about how I might intuitively consider the topic of "humor styles" (especially from a layperson POV) to mean things like puns vs. dry sarcasm vs. slapstick, etc. Has there been any research on that kind of humor style/mode?

However, I'd like to re-emphasize, these questions mostly indicate that your article actually made me really interested in the topic, and I think you've done a great job overall. :) Carps11 (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me too! I made a few tiny copyedits (seriously, like a comma here and there, to make it flow a little better). I only really have two major suggestions:

• Include a subsection within the HSQ section on how the questionnaire was developed?
• Maybe put the four humor styles sections as subsections under "Humor styles"? If someone skips the introduction or just goes to look straight at the contents, it might not be clear what "affiliative humor", "self-enhancing humor", etc are, or how they relate to the article.
• Minor - in the first two sentences of the affiliative humor section, change one of the "benevolent"s; it seems kind of repetitive to me.
• In the aggressive humor section, there's a sentence about prejudices being aggressive humor - I think that needs a little more clarification. I'm assuming you meant something more along the lines of prejudicial jokes being an example of aggressive humor?

I agree about the reverse-scored thing, too. Otherwise, very good! And I heard you got through DYK as well, congrats! Allexe11 (talk) 00:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article is (currently) solidly focused on the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), and should either be renamed to reflect that, or drastically expanded to include other theories of the categorization of humor. –Quiddity (talk) 17:09, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AGREE! This page is not based on standard psychological beliefs about humour. This is only an article about HSQ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.76.67.233 (talk) 22:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Supposing a person of low self-esteem uses "Affiliative Humor", this would not necessarily have the intended result for "better relationships." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.138.95.59 (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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There is a lack of a "disclaimer" about the difficulty in distinguishing what a harmful use of humor from a positive use of humor is. I think the following could be a useful addition to the article. "Distinguishing benign humor styles from those that are harmful has been found to be difficult because any justification for what is or is not harmful is subjective. This difficulty has lead to a lack of current research that explores what exactly defines the difference between healthy and unhealthy humor usage. ^[1]"Dguy17 (talk) 05:00, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since this article should mostly be about humor styles and it is currently about the surveys available, specifically the HSQ, the following sections could be added to the article.

• humor styles that aren't only from the HSQ
• the application of humor styles
• examples of the types of humor there is research on
• how humor styles can be perceived

More research on these sections would be needed, but possibly some can be found in published sources. Dguy17 (talk) 05:13, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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If the WAP project got renamed, that seems like a good thing. Allthemilescombined1 (talk) 01:17, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]