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(1) Humor styles
- four main types of humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating [1]
- research suggests that people form personality impressions of others based on humor style [2]
- some humor styles are better for maintaining a "stable positive personality style" [3]
(2) Emotional expression/emotion regulation
- people vary a lot in how expressive they are with emotions
- the Berkley Expressivity Questionaire (BEQ) measures emotional expressivity
- individual differences have implications for health and well-being
- people vary greatly in terms of how much they use emotion regulation strategies
- strategies such as cognitive reappraisal and suppression
- research shows that certain emotion regulation strategies (cog reappraisal) are related to affect, health outcomes, well-being and social functioning [4]
- tie in how the personality variable of emotional expressivity is linked to the use emotion regulation strategies which ultimately influence our health and well-being
(3) Religiosity and personality [5]
- how is religiosity related to personality
- religions divided into three components: religiosity, spirituality, and fundamentalism
- the big 5 traits are correlated to each of these components
- implications
- I would suggest the first one Humor styles. It'd be the most pleasant to write and there is a fair amount of material on it (it's also has a more straight-forward outline). There is an article on emotional self-regulation which could be expanded if that's your what you want. Religiosity and personality would probably be the hardest because you'd have to maintain a WP:NPOV(neutral/unbiased point of view in terms of coverage). Additionally, the article is the most controversial of the 3 and could attract certain editors. You may want to see Religiosity and intelligence to see how such an article could be framed. All three would make fine topics for articles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Smallman12q ( talk) 00:52, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- Humor styles is an excellent choice, and you have a great start. William Fleeson ( talk) 21:10, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Rod A. Martin, Patricia Puhlik-Doris, Gwen Larsen, Jeanette Gray, Kelly Weir, Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Journal of Research in Personality, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2003, Pages 48-75, ISSN 0092-6566, 10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00534-2.
- Saroglou, V. and Scariot, C. (2002), Humor Styles Questionnaire: personality and educational correlates in Belgian high school and college students. Eur. J. Pers., 16: 43–54. doi: 10.1002/per.430
- Kuiper, N. A., & Leite, C. (2010). Personality impressions associated with four distinct humor styles. Scandinavian Journal Of Psychology, 51(2), 115-122. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00734.x
- Cann, A., Stilwell, K., & Taku, K. (2010). Humor Styles, Positive Personality and Health. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 6(3), 213-235. doi:10.5964/ejop.v6i3.214
- Philip A. Vernon, Rod A. Martin, Julie Aitken Schermer, Ashley Mackie, A behavioral genetic investigation of humor styles and their correlations with the Big-5 personality dimensions, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 44, Issue 5, April 2008, Pages 1116-1125, ISSN 0191-8869, 10.1016/j.paid.2007.11.003.
I added some ideas to the regulation of emotion talk page. I had a few suggestions about adding some info about the health implications of different types of ER strategies.
hiiiiii Msbeaulieu ( talk) 18:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, Miss Beaulieu.
Thanks for adding that heading on Cullen's page. Made my life soo much easier. By the way...how do we know his name is Jim? Desasu11 ( talk) 04:32, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I saw that he introduced himself on his talk page as Jim. Majobc11 ( talk) 18:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey YO. I am testing the talk page :) Yes, this is Paige testing the talk PAGE. Mk, peace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plroseman ( talk • contribs) 03:53, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- ^ Dobson, Louise. "What's your humor style?". Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ Kuiper, NA. "Personality impressions associated with four distinct humor styles". Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ Cann, Arnie. "Humor Styles, Positive Personality and Health". Retrieved 23 February 2012.
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^ John, Oliver.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/emreg.htm. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
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^ DiDonato, Nicholas.
http://www.ibcsr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=343:religion-and-personality&catid=25:research-news&Itemid=59. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
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Hey -- you got the first positive vote for a DYK nomination I've seen for our class. Nice work! William Fleeson ( talk) 00:54, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 | On 14 April 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Humor styles, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that individuals who report high levels of affiliative humor are more likely to initiate friendships? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Humor styles.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Majobcb11! I just wanted to congratulate you on achieving DYK status on your article for the Wikipedia Education Program. Great job (and really interesting fact)! JMathewson (WMF) ( talk) 20:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
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