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

Abstract 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...

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Autores principales:	Bingbing Li, Xu Li, Yangu Pan, Jiang Qiu, Dajun Zhang
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2018
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ad85b9c49b0a473ba5e845c049d807132021-12-02T15:08:35ZThe relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy10.1038/s41598-018-21890-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/ad85b9c49b0a473ba5e845c049d807132018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21890-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Bingbing LiXu LiYangu PanJiang QiuDajun ZhangNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2018)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Bingbing Li Xu Li Yangu Pan Jiang Qiu Dajun Zhang The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
description	Abstract 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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title	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
title_full	The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
title_fullStr	The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
title_full_unstemmed	The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy
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The relationship between self-enhancing humor and precuneus volume in young healthy individuals with high and low cognitive empathy

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