Elisabeth Vanderheiden & Claude-Hélène Mayer 
The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research 

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. 

Table of Content

Part 1 Humour in Cultural Contexts.- 2 Humor and the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction


Piotr Pluta.- 3 Predicting Self-Esteem using Humor Styles.- 4 Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration.- 5 The Position of Humour in Social Crisis: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at? Ayşe Aslı Sezgin.- 6 Humour as a Positive Cultural Capital in Transitions Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar.- 7 Nigeria Cultural Concept of Humour and its Use as a Coping Strategy.- 8 Recontextualising Recession in Nigeria: Pragma-discursive Ex-amination of Online-based Recession Humour.- 9 Humor as a Defense Mechanism: Dismantling Holocaust Sym-bols and Icons in Israeli Culture.-10 Geopolitics of Humor and Development in Nepal and Afghani-stan


Jennifer Fluri and Rupak Shrestha.- 11 Humour and Laughter in the Political Context


Maria Belén Alvarado Ortega.- 12 Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work, a Positive Psychology Perspective.- 13 Humour as a Coping Mechanism in Remote Working Spaces during the Covid19 Lockdown Claude-Hélène Mayer.- 14 The Value of Humor in Romantic Relationships. 15  Using Humor to Navigate Traumatic Life Events.- 16  The Benefit of a Lifespan Developmental Approach for Under-standing Humor Appreciation and Function Across Cultures.-17  Humor in Psychiatry: Lessons From Neuroscience, Psycho-pathology and Treatment Research.- 18 Humorous Amateur Dubbing in the Ward. The Positive Effect of Non-professional Dubbing on Hospitalised Children.-19  Is it Time for Positive Psychology to be More Positive about the Wide-Ranging Potential of Humour and Laughter?.- 20 Humour in Psychotherapy: A Trajectory Through the Times .- 21 ‘If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.’ – Humour as a Resource in Life Crises.- 22 Humour in Teaching Materials for Teaching Spanish as a For-eign Language: Analysis and Proposals.- 23 Humour as a Resource in Adult Education – Results of a Survey in Adult Education from a Positive Psychology 2.0 Perspective.- 24 Humour in Mathematics Teaching: a study in Portugal and Spain.- 25 An Empirical Examination of Walter Becker, in which Psycho-biography, Positive Psychology.- 26  Examining the Intersection of Humor and Creativity as the Key to Perseverance in Ideation.- 27   Outlook Elisabeth Vanderheiden & Claude-Hélène Mayer.

About the author

Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education,  vocational and civic education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation.
 
Claude-Hélène Mayer (Dr. habil., Ph D, Ph D) is Professor in I/O Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Adjunct Professor at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.