A Behavioral Genetic Study of Humor Styles in an Australian Sample

作者：Baughman H M; Giammarco E A; Veselka Livia; Schermer Julie A; Martin Nicholas G; Lynskey Michael; Vernon Phillip A^*

来源：Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2012, 15(5): 663-667.

DOI：10.1017/thg.2012.23

• Humor styles
• Twin study
• Genetic and Environmental contributions to individual differences

The present study investigated the extent to which individual differences in humor styles are attributable to genetic and/or environmental factors in an Australian sample. Participants were 934 same-sex pairs of adult twins from the Australian Twin Registry (546 monozygotic pairs, 388 dizygotic pairs) who completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). The HSQ measures four distinct styles of humor - affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Results revealed that additive genetic and non-shared environmental factors accounted for the variance in all four humor styles, thus replicating results previously obtained in a sample of twins from the United Kingdom. However, a study conducted with a U.S. sample produced different results and we interpret these findings in terms of cross-cultural differences in humor.

• 出版日期2012-10
• 单位河北医科大学