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Note on Thorson and Powell: undertakers' sense of humor
1Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Texas A&M University, Commerce 75429-3011, USA.
Psychological Reports
|February 5, 2002
Abstract:
Recently Thorson and Powell reported in this journal that morticians scored significantly lower on a multidimensional sense of humor scale than another group of similarly aged men from other occupations. These findings differ markedly with some in 1991 from a 2-yr. ethnographic study conducted with morticians and funeral directors in four states regarding how they managed the stigma associated with their occupation.