Psychology of Humor

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Across
  1. 2. act of conveying one's thoughts and emotions
  2. 5. ______ awareness, being able to understand situations amongst individuals
  3. 6. when something challenges world beliefs, key part of something mentioned in the clue for 11-down
  4. 7. ____ strategies can include using humor to manage stress
  5. 8. a person's sense of self, often shaped by humor
  6. 9. using tangible objects to represent abstract ideas
  7. 12. a particular point of view or way of understanding situations
Down
  1. 1. this is fine, refusing to accept the reality of the situation
  2. 3. humor created when something doesn't match expectations,opposite of congruity
  3. 4. kilroy was here, often done by street artists on walls with spray cans
  4. 10. a modern form of visual humor
  5. 11. ______ violation theory, where a good joke challenges world view while being harmless... the word is also a kind of tumor
  6. 13. ________ charged, when something is tied to the government, society, or public policy and often triggers strong emotions