幽默的文化差异:一个系统的审查和批评
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
Current opinion in psychology
|September 27, 2023
概括
文化差异显著影响幽默的感知和使用. 北美人通常更积极地看待幽默,并且比东亚人更频繁地使用幽默,幽默风格各有差异.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 跨文化研究跨文化研究.
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
背景情况:
- 幽默是一种普遍的人类特征.
- 幽默的感知和使用表现出显著的文化差异.
- 了解这些差异对于有效的跨文化沟通至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查关于幽默感知和使用的文化差异的经验研究.
- 为了比较北美和东亚文化之间的幽默倾向.
- 分析跨文化应用特定幽默风格的变化.
主要方法:
- 在英语出版的31篇实证文章的系统审查.
- 分析研究检查幽默感知,自我评价的幽默,和幽默的使用.
- 四种幽默风格的分类和比较:附属,自我提升,侵略和自我击败.
主要成果:
- 与东亚人相比,北美人报告了更积极的幽默感知,更高的自我评价幽默,以及更大的幽默使用.
- 在使用附属,自我提升,侵略和自我击败的幽默风格方面存在显著的文化差异.
- 审查发现了现有的跨文化幽默研究的局限性.
结论:
- 文化背景深刻地塑造了幽默的感知和使用方式.
- 未来的研究应该扩大文化比较范围,超越东亚和北美.
- 需要在方法上取得进展,包括实验设计和更大的样本,以加强对文化幽默差异的发现.
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