Abstract
McGHEE, PAUL E. The Role of Operational Thinking in Children's Comprehension and Appreciation of Humor. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 733-744. The importance of operational thinking for comprehension and appreciation of three different sets of humor stimuli was studied. Each set involved a different experimental task: (a) arranging sequential cartoons in the correct order (Set I); (b) choosing the funniest pictorial completion for cartoons (Set II); (c) choosing the funniest caption (Set III). 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old boys served as Ss. For 7-year-olds, acquisition of operational thinking was significantly positively related to humor comprehension and number of correct choices for Sets I and II, and to giving interpretive (vs. descriptive) humor explanations for Sets I and III. For 9-year-olds, more cognitively advanced Ss showed greater humor comprehension for Set III and more frequent correct choices for Sets I and II. Cognitive development was not significantly related to humor appreciation at any age level.
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