Literature review : is humour innate or learned?

• Main Authors: Ang, Yan Jie, Sim, Clement Chuan Wei, Kueh, Hui Teng
• Other Authors: Qiu Lin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62612
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Humour plays an important part in our everyday life. Researchers have long debated on whether humour is a characteristic that can be learned or it is genetically determined. Humour, being a highly complex multi-dimensional concept, makes it hard to establish certainty with either side of the argumen...