Daniela Graziani
Dipartimento NEUROFARBA, Università di Firenze
Alessia Martucci
Dipartimento FORLILPSI, Università di Firenze
Keywords: umorismo, comprensione umoristica, adulti, funzioni esecutive, teoria della mente
L’umorismo rappresenta un importante strumento di adattamento sociale, e un’efficace strategia di coping in situazioni stressanti. La ricerca ha mostrato sempre più interesse nello studio delle abilità di comprensione umoristica nella popolazione adulta. Tale approfondimento scientifico ha come obiettivo quello di determinare modelli specifici con le sue relative componenti in funzione di fattori individuali e sociodemografici. Inoltre, lo studio nella popolazione sana può portare a una maggiore comprensione del modello in individui con pattern di sviluppo atipico o sindromi rare, i cui processi umoristici deficitari possono causare ricadute nella comunicazione e nell’adattamento sociale. Nella presente rassegna sono stati analizzati studi sulle suddette abilità in soggetti adulti sani, i fattori correlati e gli strumenti di valutazione. Si evidenzia un impatto significativo della memoria di lavoro e delle abilità di mentalizzazione, un’associazione negativa con l’età, mentre riguardo gli strumenti di valutazione, vengono utilizzati sia brevi storie da completare con finale umoristico, sia stimoli visivi come fumetti, uniti a misure di eye-tracking.
Daniela Graziani
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Psicologia, Area del Farmaco e Salute del Bambino (NEUROFARBA), Università Degli Studi di Firenze, viale Pieraccini, 6, 50139 Firenze danielagraziani@yahoo.it. Psicologa, ha lavorato come borsista ed assegnista di ricerca presso Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento NEUROFARBA e FORLILPSI. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca sono la psicologia pediatrica ospedaliera, l’umorismo, l’alterazione delle funzioni esecutive nei disturbi del neurosviluppo e lo studio dell’efficacia di interventi per la teleriabilitazione dei disturbi dell’apprendimento.
Alessia Martucci
Dipartimento FORLILPSI (Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia) via di San Salvi, 12, 50135 Firenze alessia.martucci@edu.unifi.it. Dottoressa in psicologia del lavoro e assistente di ricerca presso VirthuLab (Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento FORLILPSI), ha come suoi interessi principali la gaming motivation, l'umorismo e aspetti di personalità in contesti di lavoro.
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