Relationship between styles of humor and divergent thinking

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2010-02-08

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Cayirdag, Nur
Acar, Selcuk

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between styles of humor and divergent thinking of Turkish 6(th), 7(th), and 8(th) grade students. Styles of humor were measured by Humor Style Questionnaire and divergent thinking was measured by Guilford's Uses Test. Two measurements were administered to 84 6(th), 7(th) and 8(th) grade students. Using bivariate correlations among 4 styles of humor, fluency, originality, and creativity, it was found that aggressive humor style was negatively correlated with fluency, originality, and creativity index and self- defeating humor style was negatively correlated with fluency scores. These results were discussed in terms of the association of humor and divergent thinking.

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Humor, Divergent thinking, Creativity, Fluency, Originality

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65090

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.494

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2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES-2010)

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N. Cayirdag and S. Acar, “Relationship between styles of humor and divergent thinking,” Istanbul, Turkey, 2010, vol. 2, p. 3236, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65090.