Nathan Miczo
Biographic Data
| ID | 282598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Miczo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Miczo |
| SIGNATURE | MICZO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5043-3901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An examination of responses to ageist jokes
Ageist humor is an everyday way that negative social attitudes (i.e., ageism) are circulated. Advances in the study of disparagement humor (prejudiced norm theory, the justification-suppression model) were utilized to examine responses to ageist humor in two studies. Study 1, comparing ageist and sexist comments, found no differences in perceived funniness between statements and jokes, though jokes were seen as less offensive and more confrontati…
Sibling Topic Avoidance in Emerging Adulthood
Sibling topic avoidance was examined from the perspective of family communication patterns, relational turbulence theory, and topic avoidance. Respondents (n = 291) completed a survey on sibling communication patterns, interference/facilitation, topic avoidance motivations, and topics avoided. Sibling conversation orientation positively predicted facilitation, and negatively predicted interference, topic avoidance motivations, and topic avoidance…
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor
This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison …
Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs
This study investigated relational uncertainty as a mechanism through which perceived partner humor use affects recipient’s relationship satisfaction. Two hundred individuals completed measures of their partners’ perceived positive and negative humor use, their relational uncertainty and relationship satisfaction. Results reveal that perceived partner’s positive relational humor use predicted greater relationship satisfaction, and perceived partn…
A review of communication approaches to the study of humor
The discipline of communication has contributed a number of theories and models to the study of humor. The purpose of this paper is to review seven of those approaches: Gruner’s ‘laughing = winning theory,’ du Pré’s surprise liberation theory, Meyer’s rhetorical functions of humor, Lynch’s model of organizational humor, Miczo’s security theory of humor, DiCioccio’s interactionist model of teasing, and Wanzer, Frymier, and Irwin’s instructional hu…
Analyzing structure and function in humor
Utilizing Attardo's general theory of verbal humor and Meyer's rhetorical functions of humor, as well as insights from conversation analysis, this paper presents a model linking form and function in conversational humor. In the model, an initial pair of incongruous scripts (i.e., a script opposition) is activated as membership categories are referenced in the set-up. The punch- or jab-line introduces a second script opposition that “resolves” or …
The Human Condition and the Gift
Aggressive and Affiliative Humor
The security theory of humor was utilized to examine two types of humor (affiliative and aggressive) in relation to intercultural communication. Participants (N = 241) completed a survey containing measures of humor (humor orientation, humor aggressiveness) and intercultural communication (intercultural communication apprehension, ethnocentrism, emulation, intercultural willingness to communicate). Humor orientation was negatively related to inte…
Parental Support, Perceived Stress, and Illness-Related Variables Among First-Year College Students
The recognition and study of illness as a fundamentally interpersonal phenomenon represents an understudied area in relationship research. This study examined interpersonal factors affecting illness (i.e., symptoms, attitudes, and responses) in first-year college students. Three hundred ninety freshmen from 2 research sites completed measures of perceived stress, parental support received and desired, symptom frequency, illness attitudes (release…
Beyond the “Fetishism of Words”
The author explores the technique of interviewing chronic illness patients to obtain narratives of their illness experiences. It is argued that the perspective that interview responses are accurate reflections of experience (the “fetishism of words”) hampers the understanding of patient voice and agency. Discussions of chronic illness and narrative are followed by an examination of the interview based on the work of Charles L. Briggs. The author …
Hobbes, Rousseau, and The “Gift” in Interpersonal Relationships
Parental Support, Perceived Stress, and Illness-Related Variables Among First-Year College Students
The recognition and study of illness as a fundamentally interpersonal phenomenon represents an understudied area in relationship research. This study examined interpersonal factors affecting illness (i.e., symptoms, attitudes, and responses) in first-year college students. Three hundred ninety freshmen from 2 research sites completed measures of perceived stress, parental support received and desired, symptom frequency, illness attitudes (release…
Sibling Topic Avoidance in Emerging Adulthood
Sibling topic avoidance was examined from the perspective of family communication patterns, relational turbulence theory, and topic avoidance. Respondents (n = 291) completed a survey on sibling communication patterns, interference/facilitation, topic avoidance motivations, and topics avoided. Sibling conversation orientation positively predicted facilitation, and negatively predicted interference, topic avoidance motivations, and topic avoidance…
The Human Condition and the Gift
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor
This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison …
Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs
This study investigated relational uncertainty as a mechanism through which perceived partner humor use affects recipient’s relationship satisfaction. Two hundred individuals completed measures of their partners’ perceived positive and negative humor use, their relational uncertainty and relationship satisfaction. Results reveal that perceived partner’s positive relational humor use predicted greater relationship satisfaction, and perceived partn…
Analyzing structure and function in humor
Utilizing Attardo's general theory of verbal humor and Meyer's rhetorical functions of humor, as well as insights from conversation analysis, this paper presents a model linking form and function in conversational humor. In the model, an initial pair of incongruous scripts (i.e., a script opposition) is activated as membership categories are referenced in the set-up. The punch- or jab-line introduces a second script opposition that “resolves” or …
Hobbes, Rousseau, and The “Gift” in Interpersonal Relationships
Hobbes, Rousseau, and The “Gift” in Interpersonal Relationships
Beyond the “Fetishism of Words”
The author explores the technique of interviewing chronic illness patients to obtain narratives of their illness experiences. It is argued that the perspective that interview responses are accurate reflections of experience (the “fetishism of words”) hampers the understanding of patient voice and agency. Discussions of chronic illness and narrative are followed by an examination of the interview based on the work of Charles L. Briggs. The author …
Aggressive and Affiliative Humor
The security theory of humor was utilized to examine two types of humor (affiliative and aggressive) in relation to intercultural communication. Participants (N = 241) completed a survey containing measures of humor (humor orientation, humor aggressiveness) and intercultural communication (intercultural communication apprehension, ethnocentrism, emulation, intercultural willingness to communicate). Humor orientation was negatively related to inte…
Parental Support, Perceived Stress, and Illness-Related Variables Among First-Year College Students
The recognition and study of illness as a fundamentally interpersonal phenomenon represents an understudied area in relationship research. This study examined interpersonal factors affecting illness (i.e., symptoms, attitudes, and responses) in first-year college students. Three hundred ninety freshmen from 2 research sites completed measures of perceived stress, parental support received and desired, symptom frequency, illness attitudes (release…
The Human Condition and the Gift
Analyzing structure and function in humor
Utilizing Attardo's general theory of verbal humor and Meyer's rhetorical functions of humor, as well as insights from conversation analysis, this paper presents a model linking form and function in conversational humor. In the model, an initial pair of incongruous scripts (i.e., a script opposition) is activated as membership categories are referenced in the set-up. The punch- or jab-line introduces a second script opposition that “resolves” or …
A review of communication approaches to the study of humor
The discipline of communication has contributed a number of theories and models to the study of humor. The purpose of this paper is to review seven of those approaches: Gruner’s ‘laughing = winning theory,’ du Pré’s surprise liberation theory, Meyer’s rhetorical functions of humor, Lynch’s model of organizational humor, Miczo’s security theory of humor, DiCioccio’s interactionist model of teasing, and Wanzer, Frymier, and Irwin’s instructional hu…
Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs
This study investigated relational uncertainty as a mechanism through which perceived partner humor use affects recipient’s relationship satisfaction. Two hundred individuals completed measures of their partners’ perceived positive and negative humor use, their relational uncertainty and relationship satisfaction. Results reveal that perceived partner’s positive relational humor use predicted greater relationship satisfaction, and perceived partn…
Sibling Topic Avoidance in Emerging Adulthood
Sibling topic avoidance was examined from the perspective of family communication patterns, relational turbulence theory, and topic avoidance. Respondents (n = 291) completed a survey on sibling communication patterns, interference/facilitation, topic avoidance motivations, and topics avoided. Sibling conversation orientation positively predicted facilitation, and negatively predicted interference, topic avoidance motivations, and topic avoidance…
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor
This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison …
An examination of responses to ageist jokes
Ageist humor is an everyday way that negative social attitudes (i.e., ageism) are circulated. Advances in the study of disparagement humor (prejudiced norm theory, the justification-suppression model) were utilized to examine responses to ageist humor in two studies. Study 1, comparing ageist and sexist comments, found no differences in perceived funniness between statements and jokes, though jokes were seen as less offensive and more confrontati…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Communication (3 works)