Cartoons as Topic
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Finding comfort in a joke: consolatory effects of humor through cognitive distraction.

30 Jul 2009 This study aimed to demonstrate that the cognitive demands involved in humor processing can attenuate negative emotions. A primary aspect of humor is that it poses cognitive demands needed for incongruency resolution. On the basis of findings that ... Read more...

Looking at movies and cartoons: eye-tracking evidence from Williams syndrome and autism.

30 Jan 2009 BACKGROUND: Autism and Williams syndrome (WS) are neuro-developmental disorders associated with distinct social phenotypes. While individuals with autism show a lack of interest in socially important cues, individuals with WS often show increased ... Read more...

Women on women: lesbian identity, lesbian community, and lesbian comics.

30 Dec 2008 Decades of communication research have shown that the stories we humans tell ourselves about ourselves reflect and shape our identities as members of our particular culture(s). By creating texts that portray a group rarely made visible, lesbian ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cartoons as Topic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Critic should laugh more. 30 Jul 2009
• Finding comfort in a joke: consolatory effects of humor through cognitive distraction. 30 Jul 2009
• [Presentation of nursing in the Japanese manga: the image of a nurse] 29 Jun 2009
• What's so funny? 30 May 2009
• Last month's prudence. 29 Apr 2009
• Emotionally speaking. 29 Apr 2009
• Medical manga comes to America. Mar 2009
• Eleanor Davies-Colley: the first woman F.RC.S. 27 Feb 2009
• Looking at movies and cartoons: eye-tracking evidence from Williams syndrome and autism. 30 Jan 2009
• The first cinematic presentation of a possible rhythmic movement disorder in a Disney film precedes its scientific debut by 60 years. 13 Jan 2009
• Women on women: lesbian identity, lesbian community, and lesbian comics. 30 Dec 2008
• Images and emotion in abortion debates. 29 Nov 2008
• Visual bioethics. 29 Nov 2008
• Cartoon 'correctiveness'. 29 Nov 2008
• Neural substrates of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor. 11 Nov 2008
• Bullying in Pattani primary schools in southern Thailand. 28 Oct 2008
• Recognition hypermnesia: how to get it. 29 Sep 2008
• Cartoon deemed inappropriate. 30 Aug 2008
• Persuasive food marketing to children: use of cartoons and competitions in Australian commercial television advertisements. 26 Aug 2008
• [James Thurber's monophthalmia and cataract] 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Cartoons as Topic'

Definition: Sketches or drawings, usually humorous, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D002359

Alternative terms: Cartoons as Topic; Cartoons as Topics; Cartoon as Topic; Cartoon as Topics;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: K01.093.206.332;

History Note: 2008(1975)

Technical Notes: IM; do not confuse with Publication Type CARTOONS; CARICATURES AS TOPIC is also available