Comic styles, HEXACO, and PhoPhiKat: a Typological approach

Róbert  Ďurka

Catholic University in Ružomberok

Keywords: comic styles, cluster analysis, dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at

Comic styles are the most current approach to classify humor-related personality characteristics, they could be lighter (fun, wit, benevolent humor, nonsense), and darker (irony, sarcasm, satire, cynicism). A cluster analysis of participants (599 Slovak adult volunteers) was performed based on comic styles. The results revealed four clusters: (1) General comic styles endorsers (above average on all of the styles); (2) Comic styles deniers (below average on all of the styles); (3) Lighter comic styles endorsers (above average on lighter styles, average on nonsense and irony, and below average on darker styles); and (4) Darker comic styles endorsers (above average on darker styles, average on nonsense and irony, and below average on lighter styles). The findings show different associations of comic styles with personality dimensions and dispositions towards ridicule. The most interesting result is that the darker styles endorsers are more prone to gelotophobia than comic styles deniers.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Róbert  Ďurka

Róbert Ďurka is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia. As a lecturer he is interested in Clinical psychology, Statistics, Psychology of humor, and Psychology at the movies. As a researcher he is working on the adaptation of questionnaires measuring humor-related personality characteristics from English to Slovak language.

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