The Society's journal, HUMOR, provides an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of high-quality articles on humor as an important and universal human faculty. Contributions include theoretical papers, original research reports, scholarly debates, short notes, book reviews, and letters to the editors. The journal is currently published by Mouton deGruyter, and all submissions are peer reviewed. A sample journal and the contents of past volume are available on the Humor page of Mouton deGruyter's website.

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Since 1988, HUMOR has published over 400 articles and book reviews. The following is a sampling of some of the articles from Volume 21, published in 2008:

Disparagement Humor: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Psychoanalytic,
Superiority, and Social Identity Theories
Mark A. Ferguson and Thomas E. Ford

The Fear of Being Laughed at: Individual and Group Differences in Gelotophobia
Willibald Ruch and Rene Proyer

Funny as Hell: Christianity and Humor Reconsidered
Samuel Joeckel

Send in the Clowns: The Role of the Joker in Three New Zealand IT Companies
Barbara Pleister and Mark Orams

The Great American Lawyer Joke Explosion
Mark Galanter

The link below provides a list of all of the articles published in HUMOR from 1988 to 2008. Many thanks to ISHS member Moira Smith from Indiana University for her help to compile this list for the Society.

Editor-in-Chief

Salvatore Attardo

Literature & Languages Department

Texas A & M University, Commerce
humorjournal@gmail.com
   

Editor-at-Large

Victor Raskin

Linguistics Department

Purdue University

Book Review Editors

Amy Bippus

Communication Studies

Cal State University, Long Beach

abippus@csulb.edu

Jessica Milner Davis

Faculty of Arts

University of Sidney

jessica.davis@usyd.edu.au

Giovannantonio Forabosco

Ravena, Italy

g.forabosco@tin.it

Giselinde Kuipers

Sociology Department

University of Amsterdam

g.m.m.kuipers@uva.nl

Editorial Board Members
Mahadev Apte, Duke University
Christie Davies, University of Reading
Peter Derks, College of William & Mary

William F. Fry, Stanford University
Martin Lampert, Holy Names University

Paul Lewis, Boston College
Rod Martin, University of Western Ontario

Lawrence Mintz, Univ. of Maryland
John Morreall, College of William & Mary
Alleen Nilsen, Arizona State University
Don Nilsen, Arizona State University
Elliott Oring, Cal State University, Los Angeles
Willibald Ruch, Zürich University
Avner Ziv, Tel Aviv University

Consulting Editors

Goh Abe, Tokushima Burni University

Jozsef Andor, University of Pecs

Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State Univ.

Regina Barreca, University of Connecticut

Amy Carrell, University of Central Oklahoma

Wallace Chafe, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara

Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University

Jeffrey Goldstein, University of Utrecht

Charles Gruner, University of Georgia

Christian F. Hempelmann, Georgia Southern Univ.

M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College

Stephen Kercher, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Harvey Mindess, Antioch University

Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University

John Paulos, Temple University

Daniel Royot, Institut du Monde Anglophone

Jason Rutter, University of Manchester

Joel Sherzer, University of Texas

Larry Ventis, College of William and Mary