Background . Sense of humor has been shown to affect the personal dynamics of leadership in many ways: it opens channels of communication, improves social relations, enhances performance, and provides a coping mechanism for stress. In leadership research, humor has been linked with improving morale, enhancing group cohesiveness, increasing creativity and motivation, and stimulating higher levels of productivity. Though humor contains the potential to greatly enhance personal and leadership dynamics in the realm of pastoral leadership, very little research has been conducted with this goal in mind. Method . This study examined the relationship between the pastor's predominant sense of humor style using the Humor Styles Questionnaire, predominant configuration of Leader-Follower Distance, and the pastor's tenure characteristics. The instrument was offered to 2,500 Southern Baptist pastors and was completed on-line by 530 pastoral leaders. Over half of the survey participants also responded affirmatively as being willing to participate in an extensive follow-up telephone interview. These qualitative interviews were conducted with a representative subsample of 13 of these pastors. Sense of humor was studied from the perspective of its ability to equip the leader to cope effectively with the stressful realities of pastoral ministry, its ability to gain a balanced perspective on reality, and its capacity to create and manage effective leader-follower relationships. Results . The adaptive humor styles (affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor) were predominant among pastors as was the proximal Leader-Follower Distance configuration. The self-enhancing humor style was shown to be significantly related to career ministry tenure (at p=.05) and also to Leader Follower Distance configuration (also at p=.05). Likewise, Leader Follower Distance configuration was shown to be significantly correlated to career ministry tenure (at p=.001). Additional significant relationships were also found between HSQ styles and certain church demographics. These data were further explored in the qualitative telephone interviews. Conclusion . The study is intended to aid pastors in dealing with the unique stressors of pastoral leadership, to help churches assess their own expectations of pastoral leadership, and to understand better how certain humor styles and LFD configurations will match with those expectations. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

Submitted by Fernanda Weschenfelder (fernanda.weschenfelder@uniceub.br) on 2017-08-25T19:38:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 61400749.pdf: 1676530 bytes, checksum: 955355f33403da1e759d52063c9f7ed5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Fernanda Weschenfelder (fernanda.weschenfelder@uniceub.br) on 2017-08-25T19:39:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 61400749.pdf: 1676530 bytes, checksum: 955355f33403da1e759d52063c9f7ed5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-25T19:39:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 61400749.pdf: 1676530 bytes, checksum: 955355f33403da1e759d52063c9f7ed5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / O humor é um fenômeno pouco investigado no Brasil e, além disso, envolve aspectos cognitivos, emocionais, sociais e fisiológicos. Alguns trabalhos apontam que o humor influencia a resposta fisiológica e vice versa, mas as evidências ainda são limitadas. Os dados encontrados são mais direcionados ao humor como participação social e mecanismos de enfrentamento enquanto que os achados para a saúde, imunidade e fisiologia, são mais escassos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever como os humores, positivos e negativos, estão relacionados aos efeitos fisiológicos do corpo humano. O Estudo 1 teve o objetivo de validar a escala para o Brasil Escala do Questionário de Estilo de Humor- HSQ - de Martin e cols., (2003), que avalia quatro dimensões (N=424). Destas apenas 3 emergem no Brasil. Explicou se por questões culturais. O Estudo 2, laboratorial, contou com 96 participantes (82% mulheres e 18% homens) preencheram à escala que avalia três dimensões relativas a diferenças individuais em usos de humor. São eles: Utilização do humor para melhorar a si mesmo (auto melhoramento) e para melhorar o seu relacionamento com o outro (filiação) e uso de humor para melhorar relações em detrimento dos outros (autodestrutivo) e, para os marcadores bioquímicos foram avaliados os níveis séricos de Cortisol, Ferritina, Vitamina D, Proteína C Reativa- PCR, Hemograma Completo, Glicose, Hormônio Estimulante da Tireoide- TSH, Tiroxina Livre- T4 livre e Triidotironina Total-T3t. Os resultados indicam que o Humor Auto Reforçado está relacionado ao marcador glicêmico elevado bem como o da Ferritina, já o Humor Afiliativo correlacionou-se à diminuição dos neutrófilos assim como ao aumento do hormônio T3t e TSH e o Humor autodestrutivo mostrou-se ligado ao aumento dos linfócitos. Alguns resultados corroboram a literatura encontrada, embora a maioria os refutem. Tal fato leva a novas reflexões que são abarcadas ao longo do projeto.

Herdeiro da comédia italiana de Dino Risi e Mario Monicelli, o diretor paulistano Ugo Giorgetti faz no longa-metragem Sábado um exercício de reflexão que o aproxima da tradição melancólica e autoderrisória dos escritores Laurence Sterne, Xavier de Maistre e Machado de Assis. O humor frio do diretor não nega a piada, embora prescinda dela seguidas vezes em busca da conscientização histórica de seu público para um estado de ruína social. É um filme em que os meios-tons, não a calidez cômica, evocam o abandono de comando do país, desprovido da mediação de instituições como o governo e a justiça. / Heir to the Italian comedy of Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli, Ugo Giorgetti, movie director from São Paulo, reflects in his feature film Sábado the tradition of melancholy and self-derision represented by the writers Laurence Sterne, Xavier de Maistre and Machado de Assis. The cold mood director does not deny the joke, although he forgoes to it sometimes in search of an historic awareness of their audience to a state of social ruin. It is a movie in which the halftones, not the comic warmth, evoke the abandonment of running the country, devoid of the mediating institutions as government and justice.

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The present study tested the hypothesis that humor directly integrated with targeted material positively impacts memory retention and recall. The rationale underlying the hypothesis is based on findings of neurological studies and behavioral research on humor. Participants were 56 students in three online Freshman English classes at a local community college. Building on the information learned from previous empirical research and incorporating evidence revealed by neurological inquiries, this project provided each class of students with one of three different versions of declarative grammar material presented as an interactive pronoun instruction module: without humor, with non-integrated humor, or with integrated humor. Assessments included a pre-test to determine prior knowledge. Following review of the module, the recall of students’ memory of the targeted material was tested through an objective exam. After a longer period of time (five weeks), which included using the newly learned material in writing assignments unrelated to the study, students were tested again to evaluate their longer-term retention. The analysis of the scores was a two-way 2X3 analysis of variance (ANOVA). A significant difference in improvement of memory with a 95 percent confidence level was shown for participants in the Integrated Humor condition as compared to those in either the No Humor or the Non-Integrated Humor conditions in both the Immediate Post-Test (0.00, 0.02) and the Delayed Post-Test (0.00, 0.00). Although the sample was small, the results support the hypothesis that humor integrated with learning material can beneficially impact memory and recall.

Univ., Diplomarbeit u.d.T.: Pelster, Gudrun: Vom Lächeln zum Lachen--Zugl.: Bielefeld, 2004.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1993. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-196).

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [146-157).