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| Theoretical hypotheses of the humor effect of memory |
| ZHANG Zhutian1, ZHAO Lijuan2, XU Feihang1, WANG Lijuan1 |
1 Northeast NormalUniversity, School of Psychology, Changchun 130024;
2 Central South University, School of Public Administration, Changsha 410012 |
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Abstract The humor effect of memory refers to the phenomenon that individuals can remember more humorous materials than non-humorous materials, and its processing involves many aspects of cognitive processing components. The existing researches made a general survey of humor effect on memory to explain its mechanism-such as arousal hypothesis, perceived humor hypothesis, incongruity resolution hypothesis, rehearsal hypothesis and context depending elaboration hypothesis. The future research should pay more attention to the mechanism of humor effect on memory systematically and formally based on integrating previous studies.
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