TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - More aggressive cartoons are funnier
JO  - Journal of personality and social psychology
A1  - McCauley, Clark
A1  - Woods, K.
A1  - Coolidge, C.
A1  - Kulick, W.
SP  - 817
EP  - 823
VL  - 44
IS  - 4
N2  - Independent rankings of humor and aggressiveness were obtained for sets of cartoons drawn randomly from two different magazines. The correlation of median humor and median aggressiveness rankings ranged from.49 to.90 in six studies involving six different sets of cartoons and six different groups of subjects, including children and adults, high and low socioeconomic status (SES) individuals, and native- and foreign-born individuals. This correlation is consistent with Freudian, arousal, and superiority theories of humor. Another prediction of Freudian theory, that high-SES subjects should be more appreciative of aggressive humor than low-SES subjects, was not supported.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3514
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -