Citations:katagelasticism

English citations of katagelasticism

• 2009 August 1, Susan Gaidos, “When humor humiliates”, in Science News‎^[1]:

  o provide a more complete picture of how people deal with laughter, [Willibald] Ruch and his colleagues have recently expanded their studies to describe two other humor-related concepts: The joy of being laughed at - or gelatophilia - and the joy of laughing at others, or katagelasticism.

• 2010, Andrea C. Samson, Yonni Meyer, “Perception of aggressive humor in relation to gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism”, in Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, volume 52, number 2, page 217:

  The results revealed that high scores on gelotophobia lead to higher aversion to aggressive humor, whereas high scores on katagelasticism lead to more enjoyment of aggressive humor with less aversion.

• 2014, René T. Proyer, Sara Wellenzohn, Willibald Ruch, “Character and dealing with laughter: the relation of self- and peer-reported strengths of character with gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism”, in The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, volume 148:

  The prototypic katagelasticist enjoys laughing at others and thinks that this is part of daily life. Those who do not like being laughed at should just fight back. Those high in katagelasticism seek and establish situations in which they can laugh at others.

• 2021 January, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Jorge Torres-Marín, Hugo Carretero-Dios, “Do trolls just want to have fun? Assessing the role of humor-related traits in online trolling behavior”, in Computers in Human Behavior, volume 114:

  Online trolling also correlated with […] heightened expressions of the joy in laughing at others (i.e. katagelasticism) […] When applying hierarchical regressions to eliminate the redundancy among these traits, we found that katagelasticism incrementally explained variance ($\Delta R^{2}$ = 10.2%) in online trolling even after accounting for gender and the Dark Tetrad (i.e., male gender and high psychopathy as main predictors: $\Delta R^{2}$ = 27.3%).