The Investigation of Incongruity Appreciation in children’s humor pictorial stories

The objective of this present paper is to investigate Incongruity appreciation in pre-school children’s animated and non-animated pictorial humor stories.

The participants in this study are 100 preschool children aged 4-6. To do so, we show the participants a part of Tom and Gerry humor animation and a 6 levels picture with humor concept of my daddy and I stories book. The present study is to investigate the answers of these two fundamental questions: what Incongruities do children appreciate in pictorial humor stories? And what difference does gender make in their explanation of humor appreciation on the basis of incongruity theory?

Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages. The objective of this present paper is to investigate Incongruity appreciation in pre-school children’s animated and non-animated pictorial humor stories.

The participants in this study are 100 preschool children aged 4-6. To do so, we show the participants a part of Tom and Gerry humor animation and a 6 levels picture with humor concept of my daddy and I stories book. The present study is to investigate the answers of these two fundamental questions: what Incongruities do children appreciate in pictorial humor stories? And what difference does gender make in their explanation of humor appreciation on the basis of incongruity theory?

Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages. Findings show that these pre-school children are capable of recognizing incongruity in pictorial stories (animated and non-animated) and they can appreciate and present story funny situations via watching pictures. They can appreciate incongruities in a laughable picture by comparing that picture with their mind schemata. X2 Pearson shows that in pre-school ages, regarding appreciating pictorial humor (animated and non-animated) no significant difference was observed between girls and boys. It seems that if meaningful difference exists between two sexes, it will reveal itself after pre-school ages.