• Breaking Ground in Cross-Cultural Research on the Fear of Being Laughed at (Gelotophobia): A Multi-National Study Involving 73 Countries 

      Proyer, Rene T.; Ruch, Willibald; Ali, Numan S.; Al-Olimat, Hmoud S.; Amemiya, Toshihiko; Adal, Tamirie Andualem; Ansari, Sadia Aziz; Arhar, Spela; Asem, Gigi; Baudin, Nicolas; Bawab, Souha; Bergen, Doris; Brdar, Ingrid; Brites, Rute; Brunner-Sciarra, Marina; Carrell, Amy; Carretero Dios, Hugo; Celik, Mehmet; Ceschi, Grazia; Chang, Kay; Guo-Hai, Chen; Cheryomukhin, Alexander; Chik, Maria P. Y.; Chlopicki, Wladyslaw; Cranney, Jacquelyn; Dahourou, Donatien; Doosje, Sibe; Dore, Margherita; El-Arousy, Nahwat; Fickova, Emilia; Fuhr, Martin; Gallivan, Joanne; Geling, Han; Germikova, Lydia; Giedraityte, Marija; Goh, Abe; Gonzalez, Rebeca Diaz; Ho, Sai Kin; Hrebickova, Martina; Jaime, Belen; Kaare, Birgit Hertzberg; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kazarian, Shahe; Kerkkanen, Paavo; Klementova, Mirka; Kobozeva, Irina M.; Kovjanic, Snjezana; Kumaraswamy, Narasappa; Lampert, Martin; Liao, Chao-Chih; Levesque, Manon; Loizou, Eleni; Loving, Lando Diaz; Lyttle, Jim; Machline, Vera C.; McGoldrick, Sean; McRorie, Margaret; Min, Liu; Mottus, Rene; Munyae, Margret M.; Navia, Carmen Elvira; Nkhalamba, Mathero; Pedrini, Pier Paolo; Petkova, Mirsolava; Platt, Tracey; Popa, Diana-Elena; Radomska, Anna; Rashid, Tabassum; Rawlings, David; Rubio, Victor J.; Samson, Andrea C.; Sarid, Orly; Shams, Soraya; Sisokohm, Sek; Smari, Jakob; Sneddon, Ian; Snikhovska, Irena; Stephanenko, Ekaterina A.; Stokenberga, Ieva; Stuer, Hugo; Tanoto, Yohana Sherly Rosalina; Tapia, Luis; Taylor, Julia; Thibault, Pascal; Thompson, Ava; Thoern, Hanna; Toyota, Hiroshi; Ujlaky, Judit; Vanno, Vitanya; Wang, Jun; Van der Westhuizen, Betsie; Wijayathilake, Deepani; Wong, Peter S. O.; Wycoff, Edgar B.; Yeun, Eun Ja (Mouton De Gruyter, 2009)
      The current study, examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch ...