Humor as a character strength

Janet M. Gibson, professor of psychology, published “Getting serious about funny: Psychologists see humor as a character strength” in The Conversation, an online journal, in August 2016. “Historically, psychologists framed humor negatively, suggesting it demonstrated superiority, vulgarity, Freudian id conflict, or a defense mechanism to hide one’s true feelings,” she wrote. “But research on humor has come into the sunlight of late, with humor now viewed as a character strength.”