Footnotes to Chapter 5: Suddenness: Hâsa and Surprise (Vismaya) Distinguished

1.      [page 160>] Thomas Hobbes, Human Nature, p.101 (London: Anchor, 1651).

2.      [162>] H.L. Hollingsworth, “Experimental Studies in Judgment: Judgment of the Comic,” Psychological Review 18, 1911, pp.132-56.

3.     [166>] Koestler, Insight and Outlook, p.29; cg. chapter III, pp.104-05, above.

4.      [170>] D.E. Berlyne, “Laughter, Humor and Play,” G. Lindzey and E. Aronson (eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology, vol.3, 1969 (Reading, Mass.); T.R. Shultz, “The Role of Incongruity and Resolution in Children’s Appreciation of Cartoon Humor,” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 13, 1972, pp.456-477.

5.      P.E. McGhee, “Development of the Humor Response: a review of the Literature,” Psychological Bulletin, 76, 1971, pp.328-48; M.K. Rothbart, “Laughter in Young Children,” Psychological Bulletin 80, 1973, pp.247-56.

6.       M.K. Rothbart, “Incongruity, Problem-Solving and Laughter,” Humor and Laughter, chapter 2, p.38.

[this concludes the Footnotes to chapter 5: “Suddenness: Laughter (Hâsa) and Surprise (Vismaya) Distinguished”]