User:Dguy17/Humor styles

Adding section about defining humor styles
There is a lack of a "disclaimer" about the difficulty in distinguishing what a harmful use of humor from a positive use of humor is. I think the following could be a useful addition to the article. "Distinguishing benign humor styles from those that are harmful has been found to be difficult because any justification for what is or is not harmful is subjective. This difficulty has lead to a lack of current research that explores what exactly defines the difference between healthy and unhealthy humor usage."

Adding New Sections
Since this article should mostly be about humor styles and it is currently about the surveys available, specifically the HSQ, the following sections could be added to the article.


 * humor styles that aren't only from the HSQ
 * the application of humor styles
 * examples of the types of humor there is research on
 * how humor styles can be perceived

More research on these sections would be needed, but possibly some can be found in published sources

Adding to an Article
"Distinguishing benign humor styles from those that are harmful has been found to be difficult because any justification for what is or is not harmful is subjective. This difficulty has lead to a lack of current research that explores what exactly defines the difference between healthy and unhealthy humor usage." (FROM MY ARTICLE EVALUATION)

There is a lack of current research that explores the impact of humor usages on others because it is difficult to distinguish a healthy humor usage from one that is unhealthy. Justifications for harmful versus benign humor styles are subjective and lead to varying definitions of either usage.