Utjecaj psihološke distance na promjenu duhovitosti sadržaja

master's thesis

• Title (english): The effect of psyhological distance on humorous respouse
• Author: Kosjenka Jerman
• Mentor: Nina Pavlin Bernardić (mentor)
• Committee member: Renata Franc (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Jelena Maričić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Nina Pavlin Bernardić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Croatian Studies; (Department of Psychology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2016-09-27, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology

Abstract

Glavni cilj ovog istraživanja je bio ispitati razlike u procjeni duhovitosti vica s obzirom na psihološku distancu u odnosu na glavnog lika u vicu. U ispitivanju je sudjelovalo 307 studenata od kojih je 231 (75,2%) bilo ženskog spola. Korišten je upitnik koji je osim pitanja o osnovnim demografskim podacima sadržavao i pet viceva, pet pitanja o svakom vicu i ljestvicu semantičkog diferencijala kojom se ispitao stav o skupini o kojoj su bili vicevi. Ispitanici su podijeljeni u dvije eksperimentalne skupine u kojima su čitali viceve o političarima odnosno policajcima, te kontrolnu skupinu u kojoj su čitali viceve u kojima je bilo poznato samo osobno ime glavnog lika. Rezultati nisu pokazali statistički značajan utjecaj skupine kojoj pripada glavni lik na procjenu duhovitosti vica. Kada su ispitanici podijeljeni s obzirom na to imaju li pozitivan ili negativan stav o skupini o kojoj su prezentirani vicevi, ispitanici koji imaju pozitivan stav o policajcima su viceve procijenili značajno duhovitijima od onih koji o toj skupini imaju negativan stav. Što se tiče povezanosti između nekih karakteristika viceva, dobivena povezanost između procjene duhovitosti i predvidljivosti bila je blago negativna, a procjena neukusnosti je bila značajno povezana s procjenom duhovitosti na način da su manje prihvatljivi vicevi procijenjeni manje duhovitima. Potvrđena je hipoteza prema kojoj nema statistički značajnih razlike između muškaraca i žena u procjenama duhovitosti viceva.

Abstract (english)

The main objective of this study was to examine the effect of psychological distance from the main character in the joke on the assessment of humorousness of a joke. Participants included 307 students, of which 231 (75.2%) were female. The questionnaire consisted of questions about basic demographic information, five jokes, five questions about each joke and a semantic differential scale which examined the attitude towards the group the jokes were about. Respondents were divided into two experimental groups in which they read jokes about politicians or police officers, and a control group in which they read jokes that provided information only about the name of the main character. The results did not show statistically significant effect of psychological distance on the humor assessment. When respondents were divided according to whether they had a positive or negative attitude towards the group the jokes were about, respondents who had a positive attitude about police officers assessed jokes to be significantly funnier than those who had negative attitude about that group. As for the correlations between some of the characteristics of the jokes, correlation between humor assessment and predictability of the joke was weak and negative, and assessment of tastelessness was significantly correlated with humor assessment in a way that less tasteful jokes were estimated less funny. There was no statistically significant difference between men and women in humor assessment.

• Keywords: humor; teorija benigne povrede; psihološka udaljenost; vicevi
• Keywords (english): humor; the benign-violation theory; psychological distance; jokes
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:111:997176
• Study programme: Title: Department of Psychology; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra psihologije (magistar/magistra psihologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Access restricted to students and staff of home institution
• Created on: 2016-10-05 10:16:31