Stuttgart, FH, Diplomarb., 1991.

Thesis--University of California, Berkeley. / Includes bibliographical references.

Stuttgart, FH, Diplomarb., 1991.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 15, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).

Thesis--University of California, Berkeley. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

abstract: In the time of Nazi Germany the systematic targeting of Jews for persecution and extermination was rampant. Although this was a dark time for the Jewish people in Europe, they did not simply stand idly by and let this happen to them. The Jewish people found a way to make a mockery of the situation that they wee in, as well as a way to poke fun at the people who persecuted them. The Jews used dark humor to mock the situations that they found themselves in. The interesting point here, though, is that they did not use all the aspects of dark humor that exist. The Jews used situational humor, critical humor, and gallows humor-humor about death-according to the incongruity theory of humor, to make a mockery of the plight that they were in. They did not use all of the different aspects of dark humor, but only the parts that would merge with their need to mock their situation, in order to be able to deal with the reality of what was happening in their lives. For the analysis in this thesis, I researched various collections of Jewish humor in Nazi Germany. I analyzed the jokes in relation to the different humor theories, and gave my conclusion on why these jokes were effective. Based on the evidence, I have come to several conclusions. The Jews that made these jokes only used the aspects of dark humor that would fit in with the atmosphere that they were trying to create. They would not use sexual jokes of any kind because of this. They used jokes that could be used as a shield, to comfort not only themselves but also their compatriots given their situation. The use of humor was a coping measure and a sign of defiance, that helped some of the victims of the Holocaust survive the attempted extermination of the Jews. Given the opportunity, I would widen my focus on this topic to include collective memory, as well, however the scope of such a project would be more fitting for a doctoral paper. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. German 2011

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.

According to Suls' (1972) incongruity model for the appreciation of jokes, humor with which recipients are familiar should not be perceived as funny because the ending is predictable. Suls (1975) later proposed that familiar humor is appreciated because of the sense of competence derived from adequately remembering the joke. This study examined Suls' theories by having subjects rate jokes on two occasions and supply their punch lines on the second occasion. Statistical significance was determined through the use of the t test for correlated means. Jokes for which punch lines were recalled were perceived as significantly less funny than on the first occasion. The results did not support predictions made from Suls' competence theory but did support those derived from Suls' incongruity model.

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