The effects of the type of humor stimuli on humor appreciation and perceived mood

Humor is present in our everyday life that it is not impossible that it can affect our mood. The participants are one hundred twenty students from De La Salle University-Manila, sixty participants for each of the two treatment groups. The present study focuses on the relationship of mood of the participants and their appreciation of humor. Participants were asked to rate their perceived mood before the treatment can be administered, then the participant will be presented with an aggressive, or an incongruent comic strips. After assessing the comic strips, the participants will have to rate, their mood again to obtain the posttest perceived mood rating. Three hypotheses are presented by the researches, two of which are supported by the results of the study. The first hypotheses is that incongruent humor stimuli and aggressive humor stimuli are equally entertaining. Results show that the aggressive humor stimuli are much more appreciated by the participants. The second hypothesis postulates that the posttest mood rating will be significantly higher than the pretest mood rating. The third hypothesis states that the posttest mood rating will have a positive significant relationship with the humor ratings. The two latter hypotheses are supported by the results obtained by the researchers. T-test for dependent means and correlation are used to analyze the data