Alyona Ivanova

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University | RNRMU · Faculty of Clinical Psychology and Social Work

Gelotophobia, or the fear of being laughed at, has been described as an inability to enjoy humour and laughter in social interaction. A number of studies have shown its increased levels under various mental disorders. Gelotophobia in psychiatric patients may appear either as a primary syndrome, or as a secondary disorder connected to the patient’s...

The editorial article for the special issue of EJHR “Laughter and Humour in Communication” provides an overview of all the presented articles and highlights the general idea of the issue.

EN The article below presents psychological syndromic analysis, traditional for Russian clinical psychology, as a useful methodology to study sense of humour disorders in mental patients. The sense of humour, like other mental functions, never collapses completely, but rather some of its components may become impaired, while others remain intact, a...

Gelotophobia, or the fear of being laughed at, is the inability to enjoy positive aspects of humor and laughter. Most studies have been carried out on adults, but recently research on gelotophobia has turned to adolescents. The present cross-cultural study aimed to get the first comparative data on Italian (N = 1098, 13–20 y.o.) and Russian (N = 38...

Introduction. Investigating early changes in the emotional sphere within the schizophrenia course is a perspective direction in clinical psychology and psychiatry. Intactness of positive emotions, in particular, humour perception, may be a very important resource for patients. At the same time, humour perception is very sensitive to pathological co...

Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N...

Статья посвящена сравнительному анализу полноты понимания юмора здоровыми людьми (N = 39) и пациентами, страдающими психическими заболеваниями (N = 31): шизофренией и шизотипическими расстройствами (N = 19) и аффективными расстройствами (N = 12). Испытуемым предъявлялся набор из семи вербальных шуток, по которым индивидуально проводилось глубинное...

Different phenomena related to humour and laughter, such as humour styles, gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism, were investigated in a series of psychological studies in Russia. As far as the samples were rather heterogeneous in regard with age, gender, region of Russia, and included besides big cities also small towns and villages, the...

Предлагается русскоязычная адаптация опросника PhoPhiKat. По результатам анализа психометрических свойств опросника PhoPhiKat<45> (N = 818) были отобраны 30 пун- ктов с наилучшими характеристиками. Повторная апробация опросника PhoPhiKat<30> подтвердила его надежность и валидность. Опросник рекомендуется к использованию в исследованиях и практике п...

The article presents an empirical study of sense of humor disorders in patients with schizophrenia and affective disorders. Several parameters of analysis are distinguished: humor recognition, humor preferences and the level of laughing activity. It is showed that patients with schizophrenia are characterized by inability to recognize humor. As soo...