Psychometric Comparisons of Benevolent and Corrective Humor across 22 Countries: The Virtue Gap in Humor Goes International

• Sonja Heintz,
• Willibald Ruch,
• Tracey Platt,
• Dandan Pang,
• Hugo Carretero-Dios,
• Alberto Dionigi,
• Catalina Argüello Gutiérrez,
• Ingrid Brdar,
• Dorota Brzozowska,
• Hsueh-Chih Chen,
• Władysław Chłopicki,
• Matthew Collins,
• Róbert Ďurka,
• Najwa Y. El Yahfoufi,
• Angélica Quiroga-Garza,
• Robert B. Isler,
• Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel,
• TamilSelvan Ramis,
• Betül Saglam,
• Olga V. Shcherbakova,
• Kamlesh Singh,
• Ieva Stokenberga,
• Peter S. O. Wong,
• Jorge Torres-Marín

Affiliations

Sonja Heintz

Department of Psychology, Personality and Assessment, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Willibald Ruch

Department of Psychology, Personality and Assessment, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tracey Platt

Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, Institute of Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Dandan Pang

Department of Psychology, Personality and Assessment, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Hugo Carretero-Dios

Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro, y Comportamiento, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Alberto Dionigi

Federazione Nazionale Clown Dottori (FNC), Cesena, Italy

Catalina Argüello Gutiérrez

Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro, y Comportamiento, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Ingrid Brdar

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Dorota Brzozowska

Institute of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Opole, Opole, Poland

Hsueh-Chih Chen

College of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Władysław Chłopicki

Department of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Matthew Collins

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Róbert Ďurka

0Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Ružomberok, Slovakia

Najwa Y. El Yahfoufi

1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

Angélica Quiroga-Garza

2Departamento Académico de Psicología, Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

Robert B. Isler

3School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel

4Facultad de Educación, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile

TamilSelvan Ramis

5Department of Psychology, HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Betül Saglam

6Psychology Department, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Turkey

Olga V. Shcherbakova

7Faculty of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Kamlesh Singh

8Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Ieva Stokenberga

9Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Peter S. O. Wong

0Centre for Fundamental and Liberal Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Malaysia

Jorge Torres-Marín

1Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento, University of Granada, Granada, Spain