Laughing Personalities: The Relationship Between Extraversion and Humor Styles

Publication Date

Spring 4-22-2026

Presentation Length

15 minutes

College

College of Sciences & Mathematics

Department

Psychological Science, Department of

Student Level

Undergraduate

Faculty Mentor

Amber Turner

Metadata/Fulltext

Metadata ONLY

Presentation Type

Talk/Oral

Summary

In our study we will be looking at the correlation between extraversion and different humor styles to understand how personality fits into humor. In previous research we have seen that extraversion was found to be very important to humor self-concepts, especially sociability. Past research has also found that extraversion has a correlation with an affiliative humor style relating to being more social and actively engaging with others. To create our questions and to collect our data we used Qualtrics to make our survey which was then sent through SONA. There were two different questionnaires used, one of them being the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Rod A. Martin, Ph.D. 2014) which consisted of 32 items and the second questionnaire we used was the extraversion questionnaire which consisted of 30 questions. Our study consist of four hypotheses: #1- Aggressive humor is positively correlated with extraversion, #2- Affiliative humor is positively correlated with extraversion, #3- Self-enhancing humor is negatively correlated with extraversion, and #4- self-defeating humor is negatively correlated with extraversion. Findings and their implications will be discussed.

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