Approaches to Humor Appreciation
I: Personality Dispositions in Humor Preferences
1: Humor and Anxiety
2: Humor as a Disturbing Stimulus
3: The Relation of Drive Discharge to the Enjoyment of Humor
4: Some Psychological Correlates of Humor Preferences
5: Aggression, Need for Social Approval, and Humor Preferences
6: Repression and Insight as Related to Reaction to Cartoons
II: The Effects of Experimental Arousal on Humor Responses
7: The Effect of Motivation Arousal on Humor Preferences
8: The Angered: Their Susceptibility to Varieties of Humor
9: Aggression Arousal, Hostile Humor, Catharsis
10: Mobilization of Inhibitions and the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor
III: Cognition and Humor
11: Cognitive Challenge as a Factor in Children's Humor Appreciation
12: Distraction as a Factor in the Enjoyment of Aggressive Humor
IV: Social Aspects of Humor
13: The Position of Humor in Human Communication
14: Regression in Primitive Clowning
