Suits Kristi, Tulviste Tiia, Ong Ruth, Tulviste Jaan, Kolk Anneli
Department of Psychology, University of Tartu and Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
J Child Neurol. 2012 Mar;27(3):310-8. doi: 10.1177/0883073811419259. Epub 2011 Oct 21.
This study explored verbal, visual, motor, and tactile humor appreciation and comprehension among preschool children with epilepsy as compared with healthy children. Participants included 32 children with focal epilepsy, as well as 70 healthy controls. The results suggest that children with epilepsy assess humor dichotomously (as either not funny at all or as extremely funny) and generally as less amusing when compared with ratings given by controls (M = 6.08, and M = 7.44, P = .01, respectively). They also gave significantly lower ratings to verbal jokes than to visual jokes. Furthermore, children with epilepsy assessed the jokes they understood (ie, gave expected explanations to the content of jokes) as less funny. An important finding from our study was that children with epilepsy assess aggressive humor as not funny. The most frequent emotional reaction in both groups to jokes from all subtests was a smile, followed by a half-smile.
本研究探讨了癫痫学龄前儿童与健康儿童在言语、视觉、动作和触觉幽默欣赏及理解方面的差异。参与者包括32名局灶性癫痫儿童以及70名健康对照儿童。结果表明，癫痫儿童对幽默的评价是二分法的（要么一点都不好笑，要么极其好笑），与对照组的评分相比，总体上觉得趣味性较低（分别为M = 6.08和M = 7.44，P = 0.01）。他们对言语笑话的评分也显著低于视觉笑话。此外，癫痫儿童认为他们理解的笑话（即能对笑话内容给出预期解释的笑话）趣味性较低。我们研究的一个重要发现是，癫痫儿童认为攻击性幽默不好笑。两组对所有子测试中的笑话最常见的情绪反应是微笑，其次是半笑。
