The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy

A self-enhancing humor style (SEHS) plays an important role in the regulation of negative emotion through humorous perspective-taking. Following the mind-reading theories of humor, we investigated the relationship between gray-matter volume (GMV) of brain areas related to theory of mind and SEHS in...

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Autores principales: Li, Bingbing, Li, Xu, Pan, Yangu, Qiu, Jiang, Zhang, Dajun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29472593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21890-0
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description A self-enhancing humor style (SEHS) plays an important role in the regulation of negative emotion through humorous perspective-taking. Following the mind-reading theories of humor, we investigated the relationship between gray-matter volume (GMV) of brain areas related to theory of mind and SEHS in young college students, using voxel-based morphometry analysis. We then performed a voxel-wise analysis of covariance to assess any moderation effect of cognitive empathy on the relationship. Results demonstrated that higher SEHS scores were associated with larger GMV of the precuneus in the group with high cognitive empathy, but there was no association in the group with low cognitive empathy. These results suggest that high cognitive empathy and increased precuneus volume can predict greater use of self-enhancing humor in young healthy individuals.
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spelling pubmed-58238852018-02-26 The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy Li, Bingbing Li, Xu Pan, Yangu Qiu, Jiang Zhang, Dajun Sci Rep Article A self-enhancing humor style (SEHS) plays an important role in the regulation of negative emotion through humorous perspective-taking. Following the mind-reading theories of humor, we investigated the relationship between gray-matter volume (GMV) of brain areas related to theory of mind and SEHS in young college students, using voxel-based morphometry analysis. We then performed a voxel-wise analysis of covariance to assess any moderation effect of cognitive empathy on the relationship. Results demonstrated that higher SEHS scores were associated with larger GMV of the precuneus in the group with high cognitive empathy, but there was no association in the group with low cognitive empathy. These results suggest that high cognitive empathy and increased precuneus volume can predict greater use of self-enhancing humor in young healthy individuals. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5823885/ /pubmed/29472593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21890-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_full The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
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title_full_unstemmed The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
title_short The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29472593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21890-0
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