Article
The Experience of Failed Humor: Implications for Interpersonal Affect Regulation
Journal of Business and Psychology
(2014)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate failed interpersonal affect regulation through the lens of humor. We investigated individual differences that influenced people’s affective and cognitive responses to failed humor and their willingness to persist in the interpersonal regulation of positive affect after a failed attempt.
Keywords
- interpersonal affect regulation,
- humor,
- affect-related individual differences,
- affective perspective taking,
- gender differences,
- efficacy,
- motivation to persist,
- narrative methodology
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Citation Information
Michele Williams and Kyle J Emich. "The Experience of Failed Humor: Implications for Interpersonal Affect Regulation" Journal of Business and Psychology (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michele_williams/11/
© Springer Verlag. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Williams, M., & Emich, K. E. (2014). The experience of failed humor: Implications for interpersonal affect regulation. Journal of Business Venturing.