Prochaine conférence :
Humor in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Andrea Samson
PhD, Centre suisse des sciences affectives, Université de Genève
Mardi 15 mars 2016 - 18h15 - Uni Mail - salle R040
Résumé
Humor is a multi-facetted phenomenon that includes (but is not limited to) features, which render a stimulus potentially humorous, specific social, cognitive, and affective skills that enable individuals to appreciate humor, or an attitude towards life (i.e., to respond with humor towards adversity in life). In addition, humor plays a crucial role in our social lives by enabling communication in indirect and non-serious ways, or to foster close relationships and maintain hierarchies. Interestingly, Hans Asperger claimed that a typical characteristic of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is their lack of sense of humor. The present talk will challenge this claim by presenting several studies on humor in ASD taking into account disorder-specific deficits in relation to different types of humor and humor styles. Studying humor in ASD does not only help to shed more light on the disorder but also to better understand different components of humor in relation to social, cognitive, and affective skills.
Lecture proposée
Samson, A.C. (2013). Humor (lessness) elucitated - Sense of humor in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: review and Introduction. Humor, 26(3), 393-409.
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