Schmidt S R
Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro 37132.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1994 Jul;20(4):953-67. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.20.4.953.
Memory for humorous and nonhumorous versions of sentences was compared. Humorous sentences were better remembered than the nonhumorous sentences on both free- and cued-recall tests and on measures of sentence recall and word recall. These effects persisted when subjects were warned that they were about to read a humorous sentence but were attenuated in incidental learning and limited to within-subjects manipulations. In incidental learning, recall was also scored as a function of subjective ratings of humor. Subjective humor affected memory in both within- and between-subjects designs. Attention, arousal, rehearsal, retrieval, and surprise explanations were explored. Results suggest that humorous material receives both increased attention and rehearsal relative to nonhumorous material.
对句子的幽默版本和非幽默版本的记忆进行了比较。在自由回忆和线索回忆测试以及句子回忆和单词回忆的测量中，幽默句子比非幽默句子记得更好。当受试者被告知他们即将阅读一个幽默句子时，这些效应仍然存在，但在附带学习中减弱，并且仅限于受试者内部的操作。在附带学习中，回忆也根据幽默的主观评分进行计分。主观幽默在受试者内部和受试者之间的设计中都影响记忆。探讨了注意力、唤醒、复述、检索和惊讶等解释。结果表明，相对于非幽默材料，幽默材料会得到更多的关注和复述。
