Topic · Humor Studies and Applications
Most cited papers in Humor Studies and Applications
What are the most cited papers in Humor Studies and Applications?
The most cited paper in Humor Studies and Applications is "The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives." (Melanie C. Green, Timothy C. Brock, 2000), with 2,547 citations. Next come "Emotion, Regulation, and Moral Development" (2,415) and "Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire" (2,147).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 382 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Melanie C. Green, Timothy C. Brock · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 2,547 |
| 2 | Emotion, Regulation, and Moral Development Nancy Eisenberg · Annual Review of Psychology | Feb 2000 | 2,415 |
| 3 | Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire Rod A. Martin, Patricia Puhlik-Doris, Gwen Larsen et al. · Journal of Research in Personality | Feb 2003 | 2,147 |
| 4 | Development of a scale to measure the trait of food neophobia in humans Patricia P. Pliner, Karen L. Hobden · Appetite | Oct 1992 | 2,124 |
| 5 | Progress on a cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion. Richard S. Lazarus · American Psychologist | 1991 | 1,972 |
| 6 | Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development Agnes Moors, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Klaus R. Scherer et al. · Emotion Review | 20 Mar 2013 | 1,671 |
| 7 | Empathy: A Review of the Concept Benjamin M. P. Cuff, Sarah J. L. Brown, Laura Marie Taylor et al. · Emotion Review | Dec 2014 | 1,648 |
| 8 | TARGET ARTICLE: "Putting the Self Into Self-Conscious Emotions: A Theoretical Model" Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins · Psychological Inquiry | Apr 2004 | 1,442 |
| 9 | Forming a story: The health benefits of narrative James W. Pennebaker, Janel D. Seagal · Journal of Clinical Psychology | Oct 1999 | 1,426 |
| 10 | WordNet Affect: an Affective Extension of WordNet Carlo Strapparava, Alessandro Valitutti | May 2004 | 1,388 |
| 11 | Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model Salvatore Attardo, Victor Raskin · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research | 1991 | 1,180 |
| 12 | The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters) Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park · Current Directions in Psychological Science | Apr 2011 | 1,156 |
| 13 | Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. Megan Oaten, Richard J. Stevenson, Trevor I. Case · Psychological Bulletin | 2009 | 1,136 |
| 14 | Using Linguistic Cues for the Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation and Text François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker, Matthias R. Mehl et al. · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research | 28 Nov 2007 | 1,035 |
| 15 | MISA Devamanyu Hazarika, Roger Zimmermann, Soujanya Poria | 12 Oct 2020 | 1,027 |
| 16 | Cognitive, Emotional, and Language Processes in Disclosure James W. Pennebaker, Martha E. Francis · Cognition & Emotion | Nov 1996 | 1,004 |
| 17 | Affective computing: challenges Rosalind W. Picard · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies | 12 May 2003 | 977 |
| 18 | Emotion and motivation II: Sex differences in picture processing. Margaret M. Bradley, Maurizio Codispoti, Dean Sabatinelli et al. · Emotion | 2001 | 955 |
| 19 | Bodily expression of emotion Harald G. Wallbott · European Journal of Social Psychology | Nov 1998 | 930 |
| 20 | Temperament and social behavior in childhood Mary Klevjord Rothbart, Stephan A. Ahadi, Karen L. Hershey · Merrill-palmer Quarterly | 1994 | 908 |
| 21 | Assessing the effectiveness of a large database of emotion-eliciting films: A new tool for emotion researchers Alexandre Schaefer, Frédéric Nils, Xavier Sánchez et al. · Cognition & Emotion | 27 Nov 2009 | 886 |
| 22 | Humor as a Double-Edged Sword: Four Functions of Humor in Communication John C. Meyer · Communication Theory | Aug 2000 | 881 |
| 23 | Assessing Hypersensitive Narcissism: A Reexamination of Murray's Narcism Scale Holly M. Hendin, Jonathan M. Cheek · Journal of Research in Personality | Dec 1997 | 856 |
| 24 | Associations of Weight-Based Teasing and Emotional Well-being Among Adolescents Marla E. Eisenberg, Dianne Neumark‐Sztainer, Mary T. Story · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine | Aug 2003 | 821 |
| 25 | Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, Joseph Henrich · Evolution and Human Behavior | 8 May 2010 | 797 |
| 26 | A Two-Stage Model for the Appreciation of Jokes and Cartoons: An Information-Processing Analysis Jerry M. Suls · Elsevier eBooks | 1972 | 794 |
| 27 | Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts Justin L. Barrett, Frank C. Keil · Cognitive Psychology | Dec 1996 | 776 |
| 28 | Transtornos do humor em enfermaria de clínica médica e validação de escala de medida (HAD) de ansiedade e depressão Neury José Botega, Márcia R. Bio, Maria Adriana Zomignani et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública | Oct 1995 | 738 |
| 29 | Politeness, Power and Provocation: How Humour Functions in the Workplace Janet Holmes · Discourse Studies | May 2000 | 728 |
| 30 | Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions. Dacher J. Keltner, Brenda N. Buswell · Psychological Bulletin | Nov 1997 | 727 |
| 31 | Self‐Referencing and Persuasion: Narrative Transportation versus Analytical Elaboration Jennifer Edson Escalas · Journal of Consumer Research | 12 Feb 2007 | 722 |
| 32 | What is clinical empathy? Jodi Halpern · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Aug 2003 | 712 |
| 33 | Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model A. Janet Tomiyama · Appetite | 2 Jul 2014 | 700 |
| 34 | In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust Hanah A. Chapman, David A. Kim, Joshua M. Susskind et al. · Science | 26 Feb 2009 | 697 |
| 35 | Sense of humor as a moderator of the relation between stressors and moods. Rod A. Martin, Herbert M. Lefcourt · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Dec 1983 | 680 |
| 36 | Benign Violations A. Peter McGraw, Caleb Warren · Psychological Science | 29 Jun 2010 | 648 |
| 37 | Pride and perseverance: The motivational role of pride. Lisa A. Williams, David A. DeSteno · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 27 May 2008 | 625 |
| 38 | From bonding to biting: Conversational joking and identity display Diana Boxer, Florencia Cortés-Conde · Journal of Pragmatics | Mar 1997 | 623 |
| 39 | Moral affect: The good, the bad, and the ugly. June Price Tangney · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1991 | 608 |
| 40 | The Development of Meaning in Life† John R. Battista, Richard Almond · Psychiatry | Nov 1973 | 607 |
| 41 | The Social Psychology of Humor Rod A. Martin · Elsevier eBooks | 2007 | 606 |
| 42 | The complex relation between morality and empathy Jean Decety, Jason M. Cowell · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 24 Jun 2014 | 606 |
| 43 | THE EVOLUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH Matthew M. Gervais, David Sloan Wilson · The Quarterly Review of Biology | Dec 2005 | 597 |
| 44 | 'Engineering Humour': Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-floor Relations DAVID L. COLLINSON · Organization Studies | Apr 1988 | 594 |
| 45 | How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp · PLoS ONE | 30 Jan 2013 | 585 |
| 46 | On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Apr 1985 | 582 |
| 47 | Humor, laughter, and physical health: Methodological issues and research findings. Rod A. Martin · Psychological Bulletin | Jul 2001 | 579 |
| 48 | A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative Keith Oatley · Poetics | 1995 | 556 |
| 49 | Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger · Social Psychology Quarterly | Jun 2006 | 545 |
| 50 | Psychological Predictors of Anxiety in Response to the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic Michael G. Wheaton, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Noah C. Berman et al. · Cognitive Therapy and Research | 21 Feb 2011 | 540 |
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