Humor in Interpersonal Communication – Flashcards
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Humor message
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Messages that are intended and/or perceived as amusing or funny
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Humor as Positive
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Makes you more likable, easy to get along with
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Humor as Negative
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Humorous Person is perceived as always joking, perhaps couldn't maintain a higher management position
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Script Opposition
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The ability to simultaneously consider two schemas that are incongruous, discrepant, or unexpected.
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Affliative Type of Humor
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Other-directed/positive type of humor
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Self-enhancement type of humor
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Self-directed/positive type of humor
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Aggressive type of humor
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Other-directed/Negative type of humor
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Self-defeated type of humor
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Self-directed/ Negative type of humor
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2 components of Humor Production
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1. Ability to perceive opportunity for humor 2. Ability to enact a message humorously
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3 components of Humor Support
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Joke competence, Humor competence, Human appreciation
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Common techniques of Humor Production
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1. Saying too little 2. Saying too much 3. Exaggeration 4. Being ambiguous/obscure
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Contextual Cue/Play Frame
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Sends a message saying "this is not serious. (Change in Vocal pattern, laughing, smiling)
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Risks of Humor
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Being thought of as socially adapt, a lack of intelligence. Not being known as management material. Overall, not taken seriously.
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Reasons people flout
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To create and maintain close bonds, to be playful, to enforce social norms, to put others down, to send message directly.
