But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. It is the peasant's entertainment, the drunkard's license.…
Brother Jorge
The Name of the Rose (Eco, 1983, p. 576)
Several recent studies using the scales, Situational Humor Response Questionnaire, Coping Humor Scale, and Sense-of-Humor Questionnaire, suggest caution in viewing a measure of the behavioral response of laughter as an assessment of the sense of humor, a multidimensional construct.
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