Rejection Sensitivity and Situational Factors as Determinants of Listeners’ Reactions to Aversive Jokes

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  • HAYAMA DAICHI
    JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
  • SAKURAI SHIGEO
    JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA

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  • 冗談に怒りを感じた場面における聞き手の反応を規定する要因の検討
  • 冗談に怒りを感じた場面における聞き手の反応を規定する要因の検討--拒否に対する感受性,話し手との関係性,周囲の反応に着目して
  • ジョウダン ニ イカリ オ カンジタ バメン ニ オケル キキテ ノ ハンノウ オ キテイ スル ヨウイン ノ ケントウ キョヒ ニ タイスル カンジュセイ ハナシテ ト ノ カンケイセイ シュウイ ノ ハンノウ ニ チャクモク シテ
  • —拒否に対する感受性, 話し手との関係性, 周囲の反応に着目して—

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Abstract

  The purpose of the present study was to examine a personality factor (Rejection Sensitivity : RS) and situational factors (e.g., the relation between the speaker and the listener, and reactions of surrounding friends) as determinants of listeners’ reactions to aversive jokes. In the present study, listeners’ reactions included compliant reactions, avoidant reactions, and emotionally expressive reactions. University students (169 men, 247 women, 1 person gender not reported) were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 specific situations, such as one in which the listener’s best friend is the speaker, and surrounding friends laugh at the joke.  The participants were then asked to estimate the frequency of their reactions to aversive jokes in the situation to which they had been assigned.  A 3-factor ANOVA mainly showed that participants who were high on rejection sensitivity estimated a low frequency of complaint reactions in situations in which their best friend was the speaker and surrounding friends did not laugh at the joke, whereas those participants estimated a high frequency of compliant reactions in situations in which their best friend was the speaker and surrounding friends did laugh.  These results indicate that the participants high on rejection sensitivity assessed the possibility of rejection in each situation and selected their reaction in relation to self-protection.

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