Description
It focuses on humour as a resource from different socio-cultural and psychological viewpoints and brings together authors from different cultures, social contexts and countries.
The book will enable researchers and practitioners alike to unlock new research findings which give new directions for contemporary and future humour research.
“This handbook is intended to be a primary reference book on humour from social, cultural and psychological perspectives … . Each contribution is valuable and adds to the volume’s diversity, thereby providing an interesting read. … This book offers high content quality with great expository clarity that contributes to an easy, straightforward and instructive reading. … In my opinion, it represents an interesting reading for all scholars and laypeople interested in the field of humour.” (Alberto Dionigi, The European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 8 (4), December, 2020)
Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, vocational and civic education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation.
Claude-Hélène Mayer (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is Professor in I/O Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Adjunct Professor at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.