The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research

Elisabeth Vanderheiden editor Claude-Helene Mayer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:17th Sep '22

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This Handbook provides new perspectives on humour from transdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humour as a resource from different socio-cultural and psychological viewpoints and brings together authors from different cultures, social contexts and countries.
The book will enable researchers and practitioners alike to unlock new research findings which give new directions for contemporary and future humour research. By employing transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives, the volume further discusses humour in regard to different cultural and political contexts, humour over the lifespan, in therapy and counselling, in pedagogical settings, in medicine and the workspace. The contributions also highlight the connections between humour and the COVID-19 pandemic and promise new inspiring insights. Researchers, practitioners and students in the fields of industrial and organisational psychology, positive psychology, organisational studies, future studies, health and occupational science and therapy, emotion sciences, management, leadership and human resource management will find the contributions highly topical, insightful and applicable to practice. 

“This handbook is intended to be a primary reference book on humour from social, cultural and psychological perspectives … . Each contribution is valuable and adds to the volume’s diversity, thereby providing an interesting read. … This book offers high content quality with great expository clarity that contributes to an easy, straightforward and instructive reading. … In my opinion, it represents an interesting reading for all scholars and laypeople interested in the field of humour.” (Alberto Dionigi, The European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 8 (4), December, 2020)

ISBN: 9783030782825

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517 pages