TY - JOUR
T1 - Laughter, the Best Mediation: Humor as Emotion Management in Interaction
AU - Francis, Linda E
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - Recent work in emotions and emotion management suggests that humor is a social phenomenon and serves an important purpose in interaction. That is, humor can be viewed as interpersonal emotion management, whose purpose is to manage the emotions of others as well as of the self. This article offers the following definition as an analytical tool: humor as emotion management is an expert cultural performance; which strengthens or restores the feeling norms of the situation and creates amusement in the self and others; generating positive sentiments among members of an interacting group by bonding them and/or reducing an external threat; often at the expense of some excluded person(s), event(s), or object(s). 1994 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
AB - Recent work in emotions and emotion management suggests that humor is a social phenomenon and serves an important purpose in interaction. That is, humor can be viewed as interpersonal emotion management, whose purpose is to manage the emotions of others as well as of the self. This article offers the following definition as an analytical tool: humor as emotion management is an expert cultural performance; which strengthens or restores the feeling norms of the situation and creates amusement in the self and others; generating positive sentiments among members of an interacting group by bonding them and/or reducing an external threat; often at the expense of some excluded person(s), event(s), or object(s). 1994 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
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U2 - 10.1525/si.1994.17.2.147
DO - 10.1525/si.1994.17.2.147
M3 - Article
SN - 0195-6086
VL - 17
SP - 147
EP - 163
JO - Symbolic Interaction
JF - Symbolic Interaction
IS - 2
ER -