Humour as a Resource: Psychological, Cultural and Social Perspectives

Humour is a powerful instrument to cope with life’s challenges, especially in times of crisis, extreme challenges, and socio-economic and political processes of change and transformation. The aim of this book is to explore empirical, research-based, and theoretical approaches to humour in diverse cultural contexts and to initiate a cross-cultural discourse to develop interdisciplinary, strength-focused perspectives on humour. In their contributions, the authors who contributed to this anthology explore cultural implications of humour, the relationship between psychological and psychological indicators and well-being across the lifespan, and present research for individual domains of life and fields of action. They explore humour from cultural, empirical, and conceptual perspectives. The authors present new research findings and provide new directions for future research. The chapters of this book aim at contributing to new discourses in humour research from transdisciplinary, cultural, and transcultural perspectives. This book also includes an examination of the emerging research on humour in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly its generative aspects. It also provides an overview of the focus of each chapter.