All Stories

  1. Book review

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, July 2025, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  2. Caring with Humor: How Cognitive Flexibility Enhances Humor and Playfulness in Clown Doctors

    Article • Journal of Humanistic Psychology, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  3. Jesters of Well-Being: Examining the Relationship between Clown Doctors and Patients

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  4. Measuring Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism in Italy and Canada Using PhoPhiKat-30

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, August 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Willibald Ruch, Dr Carla Canestrari

  5. Do Clowns Really Taste Funny? An Investigation of the Relationship between Humor and Playfulness in Clown Doctors

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  6. On pleasures of the mind related to humour and insight problem solving: an investigation of people’s awareness of what they like and why

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  7. The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  8. Associations between Personality Traits, Intolerance of Uncertainty, Coping Strategies, and Stress in Italian Frontline and Non-Frontline HCWs during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Multi-Group Path-Analysis

    Article • Healthcare, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  9. Parental attachment and cyberbullying victims: the mediation effect of gelotophobia

    Article • Current Psychology, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  10. Myth Acceptance Regarding Male-To-Female Intimate Partner Violence amongst Spanish Adolescents and Emerging Adults

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  11. “Old Wine in a New Bottle”. Depression and Romantic Relationships in Italian Emerging Adulthood: The Moderating Effect of Gender

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  12. Do coping strategies and the degree of satisfaction with one’s social life and parental attachment modulate gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism? A study on young Italian adults

    Article • Current Psychology, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  13. Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humour

    Article • Language and Dialogue, July 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Carla Canestrari

  14. Perceptual opposites and the modulation of contrast in irony

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Carla Canestrari, Ivana Bianchi

  15. The effects of modulating contrast in verbal irony as a cue for giftedness

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Roberto RB Burro, Dr Carla Canestrari, Anna Maria Roncoroni, Ivana Bianchi, ANNA MARIA RONCORONI

  16. Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts

    Article • November 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Ilaria Riccioni, Dr Ramona Bongelli, Dr Carla Canestrari, Professor Andrzej Zuczkowski

  17. Humor understanding and knowledge

    Article • Language and Dialogue, September 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Carla Canestrari, Professor Andrzej Zuczkowski

  18. Negotiating narrative

    Article • Language and Dialogue, June 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Ilaria Riccioni, Dr Ramona Bongelli, Dr Gill Philip, Dr Carla Canestrari, Professor Andrzej Zuczkowski