Humor: Indispensable Ingredient in Social Relations?

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Adriana Benevides Soares
Fatima Almeida Maia
Claudio de Almeida Lima
Cátia Cristina Carvalho Nogueira
Cabral Lima

Abstract

The university has now shown as a place of intellectual growth, building prospects and social life. Current studies show that humor and social skills are the key to an effective communication for professional growth and psychological well?being of individual and group. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between social skills and mood in college students. Participated 167 students, that filled the sense of Humor Scale Situational and the Social Skills Inventory. The results showed that the humor is associated with social skills and that “humor with friends and colleagues” can be considered a predictor of some factors of social skills.

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Social Psychology and Population's Health
Author Biography

Claudio de Almeida Lima, Universidade Salgado de Oliveira

teólogo, psicólogo e filósofo. Mestrando em psicologia pela Universidade Salgado de Oliveira.