COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S APPRECIATION OF HUMOR

EDWARD ZIGIER · Jacob Levine · Làurence J. Gould

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A Children's Mirth Response Test consisting of 25 cartoons was constructed and administered to 64 children of average intellect in the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. The overall findings indicated a general positive relation between cognitive level and the comprehension of the cartoons and a complex relation between comprehension and mirth response. While the mirth response increased in grades 2 through 4, an unexpected but significant decrease was found between grades 4 and 5. The hypothesis advanced to explain this decrease involved a cognitive-congruency principle which held that cartoons which make few cognitive demands elicit a lower mirth response than those that are in keeping with the complexity of the child's cognitive apparatus. Analysis of the data of the present study offered some support for this hypothesis.

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