Concept information
Preferred term
humour effect
Definition(s)
- Better memory for humorous material compared to non-humorous material.
Broader concept(s)
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Schmidt, S. R. (1994). Effects of humor on sentence memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20(4), 953-967. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.20.4.953
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
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• Schmidt, S. R. (2002). The humour effect: differential processing and privileged retrieval. Memory, 10(2), 127-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210143000263
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Moderator variable(s)
- • List composition: the effect appears when subjects remember a list of humorous and non-humorous items, but not when they remember a list containing only humorous items and a list containing only non-humorous items (Schmidt, 1994 ; 2002).
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-NKFH3F7M-W
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