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