Test Catalog

This catalog contains descriptions of tests used in humor research, and in some cases, the original tests. Click on a test link to get additional information and access to selected materials. Access to each online test requires its own special members-only password.


3 WD Humor Test

Authorship: Willibald Ruch
Category: Humor Appreciation Test
Year: 1983
Measures: Six scales for the funniness and aversiveness of 3 types of humor
Availability: Instrument available from the author
Antioch Sense of Humor Inventory (ASHI–Part 1)

Authorship: Harvey Mindess, Carolyn Miller, Joy Turek, Amanda Bender, and Suzanne Corbin
Category: Humor Appreciation Test
Year: 1985
Measures: Preference scales for 10 different humor categories
Availability: Instrument available from online retailers
Humor Cognition Test

Authorship: Alan Feingold and Ronald Mazella
Category: Humor Appreciation Test
Year: 1993
Measures: Scales for Joke Knowledge, Joke Reasoning, and Overall Humor Cognition
Availability: Instrument available from the author
IPAT Humor Test

Authorship: Donald L. Tollefson and Raymond B. Cattell
Category: Humor Appreciation Test
Year: 1963/1966
Measures: Thirteen humor-related personality traits
Availability: Limited

Coping Humor Scale (CHS)

Authorship: Rod A. Martin & Herbert M. Lefcourt
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1983
Measures: Seven item scale for humor-related coping with life stress
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ)

Authorship: Rod A. Martin and Patricia Puhlik-Doris
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 2003
Measures: 4 dimensions of humorous style
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
Humorous Behavior Q-Sort Deck (HBQD)

Authorship: Kenneth Craik, Martin Lampert, and Arvalea Nelson
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1968/1993
Measures: 100 Items of humor-related behavior; 5 dimensions of humorous style
Availability: Instrument and manual available through the ISHS website
Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS)

Authorship: James A. Thorson and Falvey C. Powell
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1993
Measures: Four scales for Overall Humor Sense, Humor Appreciation, Creativity, and Coping
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ)

Authorship: Sven Svebak
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1974
Measures: Scores for Metamessage Sensitivity, Liking of Humor, Expressiveness, and Overall Sense of Humor
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
Sense of Humor Questionnaire 6 (SHQ-6 Revised)

Authorship: Sven Svebak
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1996 / Revised 2015
Measures: Single sense of humor score
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
Sense of Humor Scale

Authorship: Paul McGhee
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1996
Measures: Overall Humor Quotient and 8 subscales of humor-related behavior
Availability: Instrument available from the Laughter Remedy
Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ)

Authorship: Rod A. Martin & Herbert M. Lefcourt
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1984
Measures: Overall score for the tendency to be amused and laugh easily across situations.
Availability: Instrument available from the authors and the ISHS website
State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory-State Part (STCI-S)

Authorship: Ruch, Köhler, & van Thriel
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1997
Measures: State cheerfulness, state seriousness, and state bad mood for 4 time points
Availability: Instrument Available from the authors

State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory-Trait Part (STCI-T)

Authorship: Ruch, Köhler, & van Thriel
Category: Self-Report Scale
Year: 1996
Measures: Trait cheerfulness, trait seriousness, trait bad mood
Availability: Instrument available from the authors