Researching humor and laughter

This page contains links to current research projects, as well as the home pages and e-mail addresses of colleagues and institutions involved in research on humor and laughter.

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Home pages of humor researchers

Links to home pages containing information on current and past research interests, findings, publications etc. on humor and laughter.

 

 

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E-mail addresses of humor researchers & ISHS-members

(sorted alphabetically by last name)

If you want to be added to the list, removed from it, or if your address has changed, please mail.


Current research projects

Here is space for a link introducing your ongoing research project as documented on an internet site.

  • Humor Appreciation Research (team 5) at Ithaca College.
  • Jester 4.0 - Jokes for Your Sense of Humor (by Alpha Lab at UC Berkeley under the direction of Ken Goldberg).

    Jester uses statistical techniques (collaborative filtering) to recommend jokes based on your ratings of a set of sample jokes. Jester 2.0 is an improved system (released 1st March 1999) based on analysis of ratings by 7000 users of Jester 1.0. Newest version Jester 4.0.

  • Humor appreciation research team (by Barney Beins, Department of Psychology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY)
  • Medienkultur des Komischen (Dr. Friedrich W. Block, Sabine Flach, PD Dr. Georg Christoph Tholen, Dr. Karin Wenz, University of Kassel)
  • Humour and jokes in children´s subculture (link extinct) by Lubos Kmetko, Slovakia.
  • Validation of our State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory (STHI)


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