Rosin S A, Cerbus G
J Psychol. 1984 Nov;118(2ND Half):189-95. doi: 10.1080/00223980.1984.10542861.
The present study investigated schizophrenics' and college students' preference for and judgment of humor samples written by schizophrenics and normals. Twenty male hospitalized schizophrenics and 20 male undergraduate college students ranked from most to least funny two sets of captions that had been previously written by an independent group of 10 college students and 10 schizophrenics. In addition, all subjects identified which captions they thought were written by college students and which by schizophrenics. The schizophrenic judges ranked the schizophrenic captions significantly more humorous than the student judges did. Student judges found the student captions significantly more humorous than the schizophrenic judges found them. When presented with both schizophrenic and student captions, however, all 40 subjects found the student captions significantly more humorous than the schizophrenic captions. Schizophrenic judges were not significantly better than student judges in the identification of schizophrenic captions. Student judges, however, were significantly better judges of "normal" humor than schizophrenic judges were.
本研究调查了精神分裂症患者和大学生对精神分裂症患者及正常人所写幽默段子的偏好和判断。20名住院男性精神分裂症患者和20名本科男性大学生对两组由独立的10名大学生和10名精神分裂症患者先前撰写的文字说明按有趣程度从高到低进行排序。此外，所有受试者要指出他们认为哪些文字说明是大学生写的，哪些是精神分裂症患者写的。精神分裂症患者评委认为精神分裂症患者所写的文字说明比学生评委认为的要幽默得多。学生评委觉得学生所写的文字说明比精神分裂症患者评委认为的更幽默。然而，当同时呈现精神分裂症患者和学生所写的文字说明时，所有40名受试者都觉得学生所写的文字说明比精神分裂症患者所写的更幽默。在识别精神分裂症患者所写的文字说明方面，精神分裂症患者评委并不比学生评委表现得更出色。不过，在判断“正常”幽默方面，学生评委比精神分裂症患者评委表现得明显更出色。
