Now accepted in Scopus The International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology (IAPP) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to promoting and integrating evidence into practice from the...
This special issue brings together the aspects of humour, laughter, playfulness, creativity and entertainment that contribute to the lighter side of life. Research and applications continue to illuminate the nuanced roles of humour, laughter, playfulness, creativity and entertainment in well-being and health. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent upheaval of social systems and mass home isolation, there has been a surge in entertainment media consumption, and an increasing role of the Internet in life. Humour in general can be considered a character strength, a means of coping and maintaining mood and emotional regulation, and has subtle variations in expression and wellbeing outcomes across cultures and contexts, for both the individual and their social groups.
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines.
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Tracey Platt
University of Sunderland, UK "My research interest lies in understanding many aspects of interactions, especially how emotions are non-verbally communicated. This gives me a lot of freedom to be able to study many novel aspects relating to human interactions. That said, I tend to focus on positive emotions, especially humour interactions and the potential negative aspects of those. I also utilize the Facial Action Coding System in my work, which allows for objective methodology to my studies." -
Sonja Heintz
University of Plymouth, UK "I am a lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth (UK). My main research interests are individual differences in humour (e.g., humour behaviors, humour styles), the measurement of humour (e.g., validity, test adaptation and construction), positive psychology (e.g., character strengths, emotions, and wellbeing) and more broadly personality and psychometrics."
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