| Description |
xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part I. Theory -- Humor as a data base for the study of aging / Lucille Nahemow -- Humor across the life span : sources of developmental change and individual differences / Paul E. McGhee -- Theoretical and functional perspectives on the development of humor during infancy, childhood, and adolescence / C.J.R. Simons, Kathleen A. McCluskey-Fawcett, Dennis R. Papini -- Humor, physiology, and the aging process / William F. Fry, Jr. -- Part II. Perspectives -- Attitudes toward aging shown by humor : a review / Erdman B. Palmore -- Timing : the significant common variable in both humor and aging / Mildred M. Seltzer -- Over the miles : coping, communicating, and commiserating through age-theme greeting cards / Margaret Hellie Huyck and James Duchon -- The last minority : humor, old age, and marginal identity / Nancy Datan -- Part III. Death and dying -- Humor and the death system : an investigation of funeral directors / Edwin Rosenberg -- Hopi ritual clowns and values in the Hopi life span / Carol Ann Lorenz and Christopher Vecsey -- Part IV. Brief empirical studies of humor across the life span -- Humor and aging in children's picture books : is the joke on grandpa? / Deborah G. Ventis -- Male-female long-term relationships as a source of humor / Edward F. Ansello -- The effect of humor on the recovery rate of cataract patients : a pilot study / Kathleen Fox Tennant -- Generational differences in humor and correlates of humor development / Paul E. McGhee, Nancy J. Bell, Nelda S. Duffey -- Performers' views of humor and aging / Lucille Nahemow and Allen Raymon -- Epilogue : A nascent idea for an Eriksonian model of humor / Martin Loeb and Vivian Wood. |
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Older people -- Psychology.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects.
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Old age -- Humor.
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Aging -- Humor.
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Death -- Humor.
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Aged -- psychology.
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Aging -- psychology.
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Wit and Humor as Topic.
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| Added Author |
Nahemow, Lucille.
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McCluskey-Fawcett, Kathleen A.
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McGhee, Paul E.
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| ISBN |
0125137907 alkaline paper |
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0125137915 paperback |
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