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50 Years of ERIC
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Chik, Maria P. Y.; Leung, C. S. Benjamin; Molloy, Geoffrey N. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
The procedure for the development of a measure of humour appreciation among a convenience sample of 53 primary school children attending a one-week summer program held in Hong Kong is described. Two sets of visual stimuli depicting pictures of local celebrities portrayed either veridically (congruously) or incongruously were established from a…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Humor
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Chik, Maria P. Y.; Molloy, Geoffrey N.; Leung, C. S. Benjamin – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
The development of a humor measure was described in a brief report in this journal. In that report, a series of suitable congruous and incongruous pictures were developed with a community sample of children. The findings of that study were consistent with those reported by others (Chik, 2001; Masten, 1989; Schultz, 1972), indicating that…
Descriptors: Humor, Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 6