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  1. Psychometric Analysis and Cross‐Cultural Comparisons of the Italian and English Sense of Humor Scale Parallel Version Short Form
  2. Ten dos and don’ts of Character Strengths Research
  3. Paragons of character—Character strengths and well‐being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars
  4. Measuring Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism in Italy and Canada Using PhoPhiKat-30
  5. Evaluation of a Study Protocol of the Application of Humor Interventions in Palliative Care Through a First Pilot Study
  6. Humor Awareness as a Primary Prevention Resource in Organizations for Sustainable Development
  7. Humour interventions for patients in palliative care—a randomized controlled trial
  8. Paragons of Character – Character Strengths and Well-Being of Moral, Creative, and Religious Exemplars
  9. Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses
  10. Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths
  11. Fear of being laughed at in Italian healthcare workers: Testing associations with humor styles and coping humor
  12. Character strengths and fluid intelligence
  13. Character Strengths in Adults and Adolescents: Their Measurement and Association with Well-Being
  14. Convergence and Psychometric Properties of Character Strengths Measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R
  15. Assessment of character strengths
  16. Do beliefs in the malleability of well‐being affect the efficacy of positive psychology interventions? Results of a randomized placebo‐controlled trial
  17. Breadth, polarity, and emergence of character strengths and their relevance for assessment
  18. The State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory State Version–Short Form (STCI-S18): An Examination of Language Use and Psychometric Properties
  19. Primal world beliefs correlate strongly but differentially with character strengths
  20. Character Strengths and Fluid Intelligence
  21. Two of a kind or distant relatives? A multimethod investigation of the overlap between personality traits and character strengths
  22. Breadth, Polarity, and Emergence of Character Strengths and their Relevance for Assessment
  23. Convergence and Psychometric Properties of Character Strengths Measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R.
  24. What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment
  25. Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses
  26. What are character strengths good for? A diary study on character strengths enactment
  27. Cross-sectional age differences in 24 character strengths: Five meta-analyses from early adolescence to late adulthood
  28. Character Strengths in Adults and Adolescents: Their Measurement and Association with Well-Being
  29. Toward a dynamic model of Gelotophobia: Social support, workplace bullying and stress are connected with diverging trajectories of life and job satisfaction among Gelotophobes
  30. Working mechanisms in positive interventions: A study using daily assessment of positive emotions
  31. Trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood outperform personality traits of the five-factor model in explaining variance in humor behaviors and well-being among adolescents
  32. The structure of character: On the relationships between character strengths and virtues
  33. On the dimensionality of humorous conduct and associations with humor traits and behaviors
  34. A lexical approach to laughter classification: Natural language distinguishes six (classes of) formal characteristics
  35. From four to nine styles: An update on individual differences in humor
  36. Psychometric evaluation of the revised Sense of Humor Scale and the construction of a parallel form
  37. Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life
  38. Paul McGhee and humor research
  39. Introduction: Festschrift for Paul McGhee – Humor Across the Lifespan, Theory, Measurement, and Applications
  40. A meta-analysis of gender differences in character strengths and age, nation, and measure as moderators
  41. The role of character traits in economic games
  42. Temperamental basis of sense of humor: Validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China
  43. Team roles: Their relationships to character strengths and job satisfaction
  44. The association between class clown dimensions, school experiences and accomplishment
  45. The German version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and overlap with other styles of humor
  46. Brief Report: Character Strengths in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment
  47. How do positive psychology interventions work? A short-term placebo-controlled humor-based study on the role of the time focus
  48. Positive Psychology Interventions Addressing Pleasure, Engagement, Meaning, Positive Relationships, and Accomplishment Increase Well-Being and Ameliorate Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Online Study
  49. The Subjective Assessment of Accomplishment and Positive Relationships: Initial Validation and Correlative and Experimental Evidence for Their Association with Well-Being
  50. Nine beautiful things: A self-administered online positive psychology intervention on the beauty in nature, arts, and behaviors increases happiness and ameliorates depressive symptoms
  51. Character strengths predict resilience over and above positive affect, self-efficacy, optimism, social support, self-esteem, and life satisfaction
  52. Addressing the role of personality, ability, and positive and negative affect in positive psychology interventions: Findings from a randomized intervention based on the authentic happiness theory and extensions
  53. Humor-based online positive psychology interventions: A randomized placebo-controlled long-term trial
  54. The Relationship Between Orientations to Happiness and Job Satisfaction One Year Later in a Representative Sample of Employees in Switzerland
  55. Laughter Research: A Review of the ILHAIRE Project
  56. Temperamental basis of sense of humor: validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China
  57. Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold
  58. The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor.
  59. Virgin soil in irony research: Personality, humor, and the “sense of irony”.
  60. Positive emotions elicited by clowns and nurses: An experimental study in a hospital setting.
  61. Your Strengths are Calling: Preliminary Results of a Web-Based Strengths Intervention to Increase Calling
  62. Good character at school: positive classroom behavior mediates the link between character strengths and school achievement
  63. Strengths-based positive psychology interventions: a randomized placebo-controlled online trial on long-term effects for a signature strengths- vs. a lesser strengths-intervention
  64. Mapping strengths into virtues: the relation of the 24 VIA-strengths to six ubiquitous virtues
  65. The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction
  66. The influence of a virtual companion on amusement when watching funny films
  67. An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire
  68. Review of humor
  69. Individual differences in gelotophobia and responses to laughter-eliciting emotions
  70. The location of three dispositions towards ridicule in the five-factor personality model in the population of Slovak adults
  71. Toward a Better Understanding of What Makes Positive Psychology Interventions Work: Predicting Happiness and Depression From the Person × Intervention Fit in a Follow-Up after 3.5 Years
  72. Positive Feelings at School: On the Relationships Between Students’ Character Strengths, School-Related Affect, and School Functioning
  73. Gelotophobia and the Challenges of Implementing Laughter into Virtual Agents Interactions
  74. Character strengths and well-being across the life span: data from a representative sample of German-speaking adults living in Switzerland
  75. The Character Strengths Rating Form (CSRF): Development and initial assessment of a 24-item rating scale to assess character strengths
  76. Temperamental basis of sense of humor: The Spanish long form of the trait version of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory
  77. The character strengths of class clowns
  78. A Twin Study on Humor Appreciation
  79. Effect of the Demographic Variables and Psychometric Properties of the Personal Well-Being Index for School Children in India
  80. Satisfaction with life and character strengths of non-religious and religious people: it’s practicing one’s religion that makes the difference
  81. The Role of Character Strengths for Task Performance, Job Dedication, Interpersonal Facilitation, and Organizational Support
  82. Character Strengths in Children and Adolescents
  83. Gelotophobia in India: The Assessment of the Fear of being Laughed at with the Kannada Version of the GELOPH<15>
  84. Humor Intervention Programs
  85. Positive psychology interventions in people aged 50–79 years: long-term effects of placebo-controlled online interventions on well-being and depression
  86. Character Strengths Rating Form
  87. Short Form of the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire for the German-Speaking Countries
  88. The state-of-the art in gelotophobia research: A review and some theoretical extensions
  89. Cheerfulness
  90. Are musicians particularly sensitive to beauty and goodness?
  91. Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?
  92. Validation of the German version of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale and its relation to orientations to happiness and work stress
  93. Components and determinants of the shift between own persona and the clown persona: A hierarchical analysis
  94. Character and Dealing With Laughter: The Relation of Self- and Peer-Reported Strengths of Character With Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism
  95. Towards Automated Full Body Detection of Laughter Driven by Human Expert Annotation
  96. An investigation of the emotions elicited by hospital clowns in comparison to circus clowns and nursing staff
  97. Relationships among higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy – The case of Israeli adolescents
  98. The European Football Championship as a Positive Festivity: Changes in Strengths of Character Before, During, and After the Euro 2008 in Switzerland
  99. Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland
  100. Dealing with laughter and ridicule in adolescence: relations with bullying and emotional responses
  101. Adaptation and Initial Validation of the German Version of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (German SLSS)
  102. What good are character strengths beyond subjective well-being? The contribution of the good character on self-reported health-oriented behavior, physical fitness, and the subjective health status
  103. Self- and peer-rated character strengths: How do they relate to satisfaction with life and orientations to happiness?
  104. Investigating facial features of four types of laughter in historic illustrations
  105. Duchenne display responses towards sixteen enjoyable emotions: Individual differences between no and fear of being laughed at
  106. Seven decades after Hans Asperger's observations: A comprehensive study of humor in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  107. The Relationship between Vocational Personalities and Character Strengths in Adults
  108. The role of character strengths in adolescent romantic relationships: An initial study on partner selection and mates' life satisfaction
  109. Are there multiple channels through which we connect with beauty and excellence?
  110. Strength-Based Positive Interventions: Further Evidence for Their Potential in Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depression
  111. When the job is a calling: The role of applying one's signature strengths at work
  112. An Initial Study on How Families Deal with Ridicule and Being Laughed at: Parenting Styles and Parent–Child Relations with Respect to Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism
  113. How does psychopathy relate to humor and laughter? Dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at, the sense of humor, and psychopathic personality traits
  114. The Application of Signature Character Strengths and Positive Experiences at Work
  115. Are only Emotional Strengths Emotional? Character Strengths and Disposition to Positive Emotions
  116. A multi-method approach to studying the relationship between character strengths and vocational interests in adolescents
  117. Testing Strengths-Based Interventions: A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of a Program Targeting Curiosity, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, and Zest for Enhancing Life Satisfaction
  118. The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns
  119. The Role of Character Strengths-Related Person-Job Fit for Positive Experiences at Work and Calling
  120. Does Being Good Make the Performance at Work? The Role of Character Strengths for Task Performance, Job Dedication, Interpersonal Facilitation, and Organizational Support
  121. Gelotophobia: Life satisfaction and happiness across cultures
  122. The Role of a Good Character in 12-Year-Old School Children: Do Character Strengths Matter in the Classroom?
  123. The Relation of Character Strengths to Past, Present, and Future Life Satisfaction among German-Speaking Women
  124. Assessing Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism in Children: An Initial Study on How Six to Nine-Year-Olds Deal with Laughter and Ridicule and How This Relates to Bullying and Victimization
  125. Letter on Shahidi et al. (2011): “Laughter Yoga versus group exercise program in elderly depressed women: A randomized controlled trial” I - First things first! Caveats in research on “Laughter Yoga”
  126. Humor and strengths of character
  127. Analyzing multitrait-mulitmethod data with multilevel confirmatory factor analysis: An application to the validation of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory
  128. Assessing the “Good Life” in a Military Context: How Does Life and Work-Satisfaction Relate to Orientations to Happiness and Career-Success Among Swiss Professional Officers?
  129. International Well-being Index: Austria, Switzerland and Germany
  130. International Well-being Index: Austria, Switzerland and Germany
  131. The Fear of Being Laughed at in Switzerland
  132. Positive Interventionen: Stärkenorientierte Ansätze
  133. The virtuousness of adult playfulness: the relation of playfulness with strengths of character
  134. Can people really “laugh at themselves?”—Experimental and correlational evidence.
  135. The subjective assessment of the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): French adaptation of the GELOPH<15> questionnaire
  136. The Effect of Helping Behavior and Physical Activity on Mood States and Depressive Symptoms of Elderly People
  137. Teasing, Ridiculing and the Relation to the Fear of Being Laughed at in Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome
  138. Self-conscious emotions and ridicule: Shameful gelotophobes and guilt free katagelasticists
  139. Associations between satisfaction with life, burnout-related emotional and physical exhaustion, and sleep complaints
  140. The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I
  141. Heiterkeit und Humor im Alter
  142. Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire--German Version
  143. Orientations to Happiness--Situations Rating Form
  144. Ways to Happiness in German-Speaking Countries
  145. Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS)
  146. The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH<15>
  147. Humor appreciation and sensation seeking: Invariance of findings across culture and assessment instrument?
  148. A lifetime of fear of being laughed at
  149. Humor as a character strength among the elderly
  150. Humor as a character strength among the elderly
  151. Sinn für Humor bei Älteren
  152. How virtuous is humor? What we can learn from current instruments
  153. Gelotophobia, emotion-related skills and responses to the affective states of others
  154. Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations
  155. Who fears being laughed at? The location of gelotophobia in the Eysenckian PEN-model of personality
  156. Assessing the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): First evaluation of the Danish GELOPH<15>
  157. Extending the study of gelotophobia: On gelotophiles and katagelasticists
  158. Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?
  159. How do gelotophobes interpret laughter in ambiguous situations? An experimental validation of the concept
  160. How virtuous are gelotophobes? Self- and peer-reported character strengths among those who fear being laughed at
  161. Were they really laughed at? That much? Gelotophobes and their history of perceived derisibility
  162. Intelligence and gelotophobia: The relations of self-estimated and Psychometrically measured intelligence to the fear of being laughed at
  163. Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries
  164. Fearing humor? Gelotophobia: The fear of being laughed at Introduction and overview
  165. The emotions of gelotophobes: Shameful, fearful, and joyless?
  166. The fear of being laughed at among psychiatric patients
  167. How virtuous is humor? Evidence from everyday behavior
  168. Sensation Seeking, General Aesthetic Preferences, and Humor Appreciation as Predictors of Liking of the Grotesque
  169. Trait cheerfulness modulates BOLD response in lateral cortical but not limbic brain areas—A pilot fMRI study
  170. Psychology of humor
  171. Who is Gelotophobic? Assessment Criteria for the Fear of Being Laughed at
  172. The fear of being laughed at: Individual and group differences in Gelotophobia
  173. Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction
  174. The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits
  175. The Sense of Humor
  176. Humor and smiling: Cortical regions selective for cognitive, affective, and volitional components
  177. National Character Does Not Reflect Mean Personality Trait Levels in 49 Cultures
  178. Extraversion, Alcohol, and Enjoyment
  179. Will the Real Relationship Between Facial Expression and Affective Experience Please Stand Up?: The Case of Exhilaration
  180. Book reviews
  181. 3 WD meets GTVH: Breaking the ground for interdisciplinary humor research
  182. The user non-acceptance paradigm
  183. Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
  184. Enhanced cognitive performance and cheerful mood by standardized extracts ofPiper methysticum(Kava-kava)
  185. Do cheerfulness, exhilaration, and humor production moderate pain tolerance? A FACS study
  186. Neural correlates of laughter and humour
  187. Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands.
  188. THE PERCEPTION OF HUMOR
  189. THE EXPRESSIVE PATTERN OF LAUGHTER
  190. Humour, laughter and exhilaration studied with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
  191. Sensation Seeking and Adolescence
  192. Die revidierte Fassung des Eysenck Personality Questionnaire und die Konstruktion des deutschen EPQ-R bzw. EPQ-RK
  193. A temperament approach to humor
  194. Humor measurement tools
  195. A two-mode model of humor appreciation: Its relation to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality
  196. Trait cheerfulness and the sense of humour
  197. To be in good or bad humour: Construction of the state form of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-inventory—STCI
  198. State and Trait Cheerfulness and the Induction of Exhilaration
  199. A comparison of computerized and conventional administration of the German versions of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Carroll Rating Scale for Depression
  200. Measurement approaches to the sense of humor: Introduction and overview
  201. A cross-cultural study of humor appreciation: Italy and Germany
  202. Assessing the „humorous temperament“: Construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory — STCI
  203. Sources of variance in current sense of humor inventories: How much substance, how much method variance?
  204. Relationship between humor and proposed punishment for crimes: Beware of humorous people
  205. Will the real relationship between facial expression and affective experience please stand up: The case of exhilaration
  206. Sensation seeking, social attitudes and humor appreciation in Italy
  207. In response to the paper “The development of the revised Pavlovian Temperament Survey in England: Continuing research”
  208. Temperament, Eysenck’s PEN system, and humor-related traits
  209. Extraversion, alcohol, and enjoyment
  210. Humour appreciation and needs: Evidence from questionnaire, self-, and peer-rating data
  211. Do extraverts ‚like to laugh’?: An analysis of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ)
  212. The development of the revised Pavlovian temperament survey in England: Continuing research
  213. Introduction: Current issues in psychological humor research
  214. Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor
  215. The nature of humor appreciation: toward an integration of perception of stimulus properties and affective experience
  216. Pavlov's types of nervous system, Eysenck's typology and the Hippocrates-Galen temperaments: An empirical examination of the asserted correspondence of three temperament typologies
  217. The Situational Humour Response Questionnaire (SHRQ) as a test of “sense of humour”: a validity study in the field of humour appreciation
  218. Sensation seeking and the situational humour response questionnaire (SHRQ): its relationship in American and German samples
  219. The Strelau Temperament Inventory—Revised (STI-R): Validity studies
  220. Cross-national comparison of humor categories: France and Germany
  221. The Strelau Temperament Inventory-revised (STI-R): Theoretical considerations and scale development
  222. A personality-based model of humor development during adulthood
  223. Age differences in the enjoyment of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor during adulthood.
  224. Age differences in the enjoyment of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor during adulthood.
  225. Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour—III. The prediction of appreciation of incongruity-resolution based humour by content saturated attitude scales in five samples
  226. Attitudes to sex, sexual behaviour and enjoyment of humour
  227. Sensation seeking and the enjoyment of structure and content of humour: Stability of findings across four samples
  228. Whimsy IV. Humor across the disciplines
  229. Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour—II. The location of sense of humour in a comprehensive attitude space
  230. Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour-I
  231. The location of sense of humor within comprehensive personality spaces: An exploratory study
  232. Intolerance of ambiguity as a factor in the appreciation of humour
  233. Positive Psychologie
  234. Danish GELOPH<15>
  235. GELOPH<15>
  236. Values in Action Inventory of Strengths—German Version and Peer Rating Form
  237. Humor
  238. Appendix: Humor measurement toots
  239. Mockery Scale
  240. State-Trait-Cheerfulness Inventory--Trait Form
  241. A temperament approach to humor
  242. Instruments for the Assessment of Positive Psychology Traits (part 1 of 2)
  243. Instruments for the Assessment of Positive Psychology Traits (part 2)
  244. Strelau Temperament Inventory--Revised
  245. State-Trait-Cheerfulness Inventory--State Form
  246. Strelau Temperament Inventory-Revised (Short Form)
  247. Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale--German Version
  248. Preference for Mode of Administration Questionnaire--English version
  249. Assessment of children's sense of humour: A survey of humour instruments
  250. Foreword and overview. Sense of humor: A new look at an old concept
  251. Assessment of children's sense of humour: A survey of humour instruments
  252. Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire--Short Form
  253. Career Adapt-Abilities Scale--German Version
  254. Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth--German Version
  255. Gelotophobia Scale-15--Polish Version
  256. Character strengths in children and adolescents: Reliability and validity of the German Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (German VIA-Youth)
  257. Teamstrukturen und Signaturstärken Talkrunde 4, moderiert von Thomas Ramge, mit Fritz Erich Anhelm, Norbert Breutmann, Rolf van Dick und Willibald Ruch
  258. A two-mode model of humor appreciation: Its relation to aesthetic appreciation and simplicity-complexity of personality
  259. Character strengths in children and adolescents: Reliability and validity of the German Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (German VIA-Youth)
  260. The humorous temperament of children and youth: Development of an age based version of the State-Trait- Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI)
  261. The humorous temperament of children and youth: Development of an age based version of the State-Trait- Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI)