PSYC 214 - The Psychology of Humor

FDR: SS3
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternating years.

This course focuses on theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding humor, covering traditional and contemporary theories of humor, along with social psychological, developmental, biological, and cognitive perspectives on humor. In addition, humor as a moderator of life stress is examined. Disparagement humor is a central topic, along with nonverbal markers of humor elicitation. Woodzicka.