Humor preference as a function of preoedipal fixation

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Published: Feb 1, 1982
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1982.10.1.63
Issue: Volume 10, 1982, Issue 1
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social behavior, social psychology, humor, preference, function, preoedipal fixation

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Samuel Juni
New York University
Cite this article:  Juni, S. (1982). Humor preference as a function of preoedipal fixation. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 10(1), 63-64.


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Psychoanalytic theory predicts that humor preference is a derivative of unresolved childhood conflicts. Students' Rorschach protocols were analysed to yield measures of preoedipal fixation. The students were given decks of jokes to rank from most to least funny. Results showed that the ranking of jokes was a function of the fixation measures on the Rorschach for women only but not for men.
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