Lippman Louis G, Bennington Kristine, Sucharski Ivan Laars
Department of Psychology, Western Washington University, Bellingham 98225-9089, USA.
J Gen Psychol. 2002 Apr;129(2):202-8. doi: 10.1080/00221300209603139.
Previous research conducted with short fables was replicated in this study with Swifties in which sentence length and presence of a pun were controlled. Of the 24 one-sentence word plays shown to each participant, half had an enhanced contextual connection that was predicted to increase appropriateness and detection of the incongruity, resulting in heightened perceived cleverness and humor. Results supported predictions, showing especially strong enhancement of perceived cleverness. The authors suggest that this outcome could be generalized to other forms of word play.
本研究重复了之前使用简短寓言进行的研究，此次使用了速记俏皮话，并控制了句子长度和双关语的出现情况。在向每位参与者展示的24个单句文字游戏中，一半具有增强的语境联系，预计这会提高得体性和对不协调之处的察觉，从而增强感知到的巧妙和幽默程度。结果支持了预测，尤其显示出感知到的巧妙程度有显著增强。作者认为这一结果可以推广到其他形式的文字游戏中。
