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Differentiating What Is Humorous From What Is Not by Warren, Caleb, McGraw, A. Peter

“…After 2.5 millennia of philosophical deliberation and psychological experimentation, most scholars have concluded that humor arises from incongruity. We…”
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What Makes Things Funny? An Integrative Review of the Antecedents of Laughter and Amusement by Warren, Caleb, Barsky, Adam, McGraw, A. Peter

“…Despite the broad importance of humor, psychologists do not agree on the basic elements that cause people to experience laughter, amusement, and the perception…”
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Humorous Complaining by McGraw, A. Peter, Warren, Caleb, Kan, Christina

“…Although complaints document dissatisfaction, some are also humorous. The article introduces the concept of humorous complaining and draws on the benign…”
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Feeling Close: Emotional Intensity Reduces Perceived Psychological Distance by Van Boven, Leaf, Kane, Joanne, McGraw, A. Peter, Dale, Jeannette

“…The results of 6 experiments indicate that emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance. People who described events emotionally rather than…”
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Too Close for Comfort, or Too Far to Care? Finding Humor in Distant Tragedies and Close Mishaps by McGraw, A. Peter, Warren, Caleb, Williams, Lawrence E., Leonard, Bridget

“…Humor is ubiquitous and often beneficial, but the conditions that elicit it have been debated for millennia. We examine two factors that jointly influence…”
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Opinion: What makes things humorous by Warren, Caleb, McGraw, A. Peter

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Emotional Accounting: How Feelings about Money Influence Consumer Choice by Levav, Jonathan, McGraw, A. Peter

“…Mental accounting posits that people track their expenditures using cognitive categories or "mental accounts." The authors propose that this cognitive process…”
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From the Commercial to the Communal: Reframing Taboo Trade-offs in Religious and Pharmaceutical Marketing by Peter McGraw, A., Schwartz, Janet A., Tetlock, Philip E.

“…Although consumers typically expect organizations to profit from marketing goods and services, they also believe that certain organizations, like those that…”
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Comparing Gains and Losses by McGraw, A. Peter, Larsen, Jeff T., Kahneman, Daniel, Schkade, David

“…Loss aversion in choice is commonly assumed to arise from the anticipation that losses have a greater effect on feelings than gains, but evidence for this…”
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The Art of Slowness: Slow Motion Enhances Consumer Evaluations by Increasing Processing Fluency by Stuppy, Anika, Landwehr, Jan R., McGraw, A. Peter

“…Slow motion is a popular video editing tool used to enhance short-form videos (e.g., reels, stories, GIFs), which are commonly found in media entertainment and…”
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The Case for Mixed Emotions by Larsen, Jeff T., McGraw, A. Peter

“…How do people feel when they experience bittersweet events comprised of pleasant and unpleasant aspects (e.g., good news accompanied by bad)? Just as acids…”
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The Agony of Victory and Thrill of Defeat: Mixed Emotional Reactions to Disappointing Wins and Relieving Losses by Larsen, Jeff T., McGraw, A. Peter, Mellers, Barbara A., Cacioppo, John T.

“…Because of counterfactual comparisons, good outcomes that could have been better (i.e., disappointing wins) and bad outcomes that could have been worse (i.e.,…”
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Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny by McGraw, A. Peter, Warren, Caleb

“…Humor is an important, ubiquitous phenomenon; however, seemingly disparate conditions seem to facilitate humor. We integrate these conditions by suggesting…”
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Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior by WARREN, CALEB, BARSKY, ADAM, MCGRAW, A. PETER

“…Consumers regularly experience humor while buying and using products, procuring services, and engaging in various consumption experiences, whether watching a…”
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HRD practices in local private sector companies and MNC subsidiaries in Australia, 1996-2009 by McGraw, Peter, Peretz, Melissa

“…This study charts human resource development (HRD) practices in locally owned private sector companies (APS) and subsidiaries of overseas-headquartered…”
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The price of not putting a price on love by McGraw, A. Peter, Davis, Derick F., Scott, Sydney E., Tetlock, Philip E.

“…We examine financial challenges of purchasing items that are readily-available yet symbolic of loving relationships. Using weddings and funerals as case…”
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Further Evidence for Mixed Emotions by LARSEN, Jeff T, MCGRAW, A. Peter

“…Emotion theorists have long debated whether valence, which ranges from pleasant to unpleasant states, is an irreducible aspect of the experience of emotion or…”
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Evaluation of Normal Age-Related Changes in Anisotropy During Infancy and Childhood as Shown by Diffusion Tensor Imaging by McGraw, Peter, Liang, Luxia, Provenzale, James M

“…The first purpose of this study was to compare the degree of anisotropy in compact white matter and noncompact white matter in each of three pediatric age…”
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The Limits of Fungibility: Relational Schemata and the Value of Things by McGraw, A. Peter, Tetlock, Philip E., Kristel, Orie V.

“…Four experiments test predictions on endowment and mental accounting effects of a theoretical perspective that stresses the symbolic‐relational significance…”
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Trends in Australian human resource development practice, 1996-2009 by Peretz, Melissa, McGraw, Peter

“…This research charts the evolution of human resource development (HRD) in Australian organisations over a critical 13‐year period and analyses the effect of…”
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