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The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being

  • Raquel Oliveira

    Raquel Oliveira is an author, academic editor and doctoral researcher investigating Technology Acceptance, Social Robotics and Humor. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a masters’ degree in Social and Organizational Psychology. She has several publications in conferences and journals in the fields of Psychology and Computer Science.

     ORCID logo EMAIL logo     , Patrícia Arriaga

    Patrícia Arriaga graduated in Psychology, holds a master’s degree in “Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology”, and a Ph.D. in “Social and Organizational Psychology”. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor (with Habilitation) at ISCTE and a researcher at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon (CIS-Iscte). She is involved in research related to the development of healthcare interventions to promote the wellbeing.

     ORCID logo     and João Barreiros

    João Barreiros is a research Assistant in IELT, FCSH NOVA. He holds a PhD in Psychology (ISCTE, 2023), a bachelor’s degree in psychology (ISPA, 2010), and a Master in Social and Organizational Psychology (ISPA, 2013). He has been working as a research assistant in different research projects in the field of social psychology. His main research interest is prosocial behavior, in particular the relation between behavioral information and helping decision-making. He is also interested in cooperation, egoistic and altruistic motivations, empathy, and morality issues.
Published/Copyright: May 31, 2023
HUMOR
From the journal HUMOR Volume 36 Issue 3

Abstract

Humor is a pervasive part of our daily lives that has several important social functions. Although past literature has suggested the existence of a link between certain components of humor and well-being, the extent and specific characteristics of this link are still unclear. To shed light on this issue, we conducted a scoping review of the literature through which we identified 128 publications examining the association between humor components (i.e., styles of humor, coping humor, sense of humor, comic styles, and laughter) and psychological, physical, social, and general well-being. Overall, findings support a clear positive relation between all components of humor and psychological well-being, and a less pronounced positive association between humor and physical, social, and general well-being.

Keywords: comic styles; coping humor; humor styles; laughter; sense of humor; well-being
Corresponding author: Raquel Oliveira, Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon (CIS-Iscte), INESC-ID (GAIPS), Lisbon, Portugal, E-mail:

Funding source: Carnegie Mellon Portugal

Award Identifier / Grant number: CMU/TIC/0055/2019

Funding source: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Award Identifier / Grant number: PD/BD/150570/2020

About the authors

Raquel Oliveira

Raquel Oliveira is an author, academic editor and doctoral researcher investigating Technology Acceptance, Social Robotics and Humor. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a masters’ degree in Social and Organizational Psychology. She has several publications in conferences and journals in the fields of Psychology and Computer Science.

Patrícia Arriaga

Patrícia Arriaga graduated in Psychology, holds a master’s degree in “Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology”, and a Ph.D. in “Social and Organizational Psychology”. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor (with Habilitation) at ISCTE and a researcher at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon (CIS-Iscte). She is involved in research related to the development of healthcare interventions to promote the wellbeing.

João Barreiros

João Barreiros is a research Assistant in IELT, FCSH NOVA. He holds a PhD in Psychology (ISCTE, 2023), a bachelor’s degree in psychology (ISPA, 2010), and a Master in Social and Organizational Psychology (ISPA, 2013). He has been working as a research assistant in different research projects in the field of social psychology. His main research interest is prosocial behavior, in particular the relation between behavioral information and helping decision-making. He is also interested in cooperation, egoistic and altruistic motivations, empathy, and morality issues.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2022-0072
Keywords for this article
comic styles; coping humor; humor styles; laughter; sense of humor; well-being

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