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The semiology of humour: developing the “counter-sign” model
European Journal of Humour Research. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 2. P. 7–25.
Borodenko M., Petrovskiy V.
A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of humour as a “counter-sign,” a two-faced sign within the space of conventionality, is put forward. The range of core attributes to interpret the phenomenon of humour is determined. The concepts of the “frame of significance,” “conventionality,” and “meta-communicative marker of conventionality” are elaborated. The general definition of humour is being formulated as a “sign-based identification of non-identifiable signs within the space of conventionality.” An outline is put forward to enable the formal distinction between satire, humour, irony, and jokes. The following questions are addressed: “Why does that which is funny cease to be so if it is repeated many times?”, “Why can the terrifying become funny when recollected?” “Why is the state of bewilderment not always funny but returning to it in one’s thoughts triggers laughter?”
СПб.: Международный институт развития когнитивно-поведенческой терапии, 2026.
This collection of scientific articles addresses current issues and modern developments in cognitive-behavioral therapy in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, coaching, and related fields. ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Ван Г., Торопова А. В., Музыкальное искусство и образование 2025 Т. 13 № 4 С. 73–91
Contemporary vocal pedagogy faces a complex set of methodological challenges that encompass not only the search for ways to improve technical vocal skills for the realization of artistic vision, but also the development of self-control and self-regulation in future singers, as well as the entire creative process. A successful artist cannot function without the ability ...
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Kazantseva A. V., A.V. Toropova, Khusnutdinova E. K. et al., ВАВИЛОВСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ ГЕНЕТИКИ И СЕЛЕКЦИИ, Федеральный исследовательский центр Институт цитологии и генетики Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук» (ИЦиГ СО РАН) (Новосибирск) 2025 Vol. 30 No. 3 P. 470–481
The development of musical abilities, including absolute pitch, musical memory, rhythm sense, and musicality, at a high degree is determined by a hereditary component (up to 68 %). The studies implementing a genome-wide linkage and association approach to musical aptitude have revealed more than 100 genetic loci. This spectrum is comprised of the genes encoding ...
Added: May 29, 2026
Давидович А. С., Shestakova A., Arzumanyan N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 - 2026 P. 1–18
Background:
Delay discounting refers to the tendency to choose sooner, smaller rewards over larger, later rewards. Many previous studies link this tendency positively to reward sensitivity, yet the specific mechanisms behind this association remain poorly understood. Reward sensitivity may relate to delay discounting through at least three possible pathways: increased sensitivity to reward size, increased sensitivity ...
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Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Behavior Genetics 2026
Functional literacy—the ability to apply reading, mathematical, and scientific knowledge in authentic contexts as operationalized by the PISA framework—is a key predictor of educational attainment, labour-market outcomes, and economic growth. Despite extensive behavioral-genetic research on cognitive ability, the heritability of competency-based literacy measures remains largely unexamined, particularly outside Western populations. The present study addresses this ...
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Dorri Sedeh S., Kosonogov V., Kerimova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1710257
Introduction:
As cities continue to grow, access to natural environments is becoming more limited, contributing to increased stress levels in urban populations. Panoramic 360° videos provide a creative and scalable means of simulating natural environments, potentially reducing stress in city residents under controlled settings. Here, we examined whether short immersive experiences in different urban environments support ...
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Letter recognition is assumed to involve several levels of analysis, including coarse tuning for category and novelty and more fine tuning for specific features, related to letter orientation. We employed an oddball fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) paradigm with magnetoencephalography (Elekta VectorView, 306 sensors) to study neural discrimination responses in the source space. Using contrasts ...
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Zaikin A., Sviridov I., Sosedka A. et al., Technologies 2026 Vol. 14 No. 2 Article 84
High-dimensional tabular data are common in biomedical and clinical research, yet conventional machine learning methods often struggle in such settings due to data scarcity, feature redundancy, and limited generalization. In this study, we systematically evaluate Synolitic Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs), a framework that transforms high-dimensional samples into sample-specific graphs by training ensembles of low-dimensional pairwise ...
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Kadieva D., Blagoveshchensky E., Agranovich O. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1832623
Embodied and embedded cognition (EEC) theory proposes that language and cognitive development emerge from bodily interactions with the environment, yet empirical tests of this claim in clinical developmental populations remain rare. This mini-review synthesizes behavioral, electrophysiological, and structural neuroimaging evidence from children with serious early motor disorders—obstetric brachial plexus palsy and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita—which restrict ...
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Кияненко И. К., Клиническая и специальная психология 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 7–19
Context and relevance. The problem of the impact of urban stress factors on mental health is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of urbanization. Living in cities is accompanied by increased psychophysiological stress, which leads to an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders among urban residents. Objective. The purpose of the article is to ...
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Alenina E., Kristina Terenteva, Kosonogov V., Behavioral Sciences 2026 Vol. 16 No. 5 Article 806
Anxiety is a multidimensional construct that influences cognitive performance in complex ways, yet its factor structure and domain-specific effects remain unclear. This study examined (1) the psychometric structure of general and specific anxiety measures, (2) their associations with cognitive performance across different domains, and (3) the predictive power of machine learning models in classifying cognitive ...
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Андреева О. С., Росмэн-Пресс, 2026.
«Деньги. Энциклопедия российского школьника» кратко и емко расскажет:
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· Как выглядели первые деньги, из чего их делали и где хранили
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· Как работает банк
· Как дети и подростки могут зарабатывать и распоряжаться личным бюджетом
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В книге собраны рекомендации и практические советы приёмным родителям, с помощью которых можно сформировать у детей правильное отношение к денежным средствам, рассказывается, какими словами объяснять понятные взрослым истины относительно личных и семейных финансов ребёнку любого возраста. Одной из задач книги стала необходимость объяснения этого феномена — потребительского отношения приёмных детей к труду замещающих родителей, к ...
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In psychology, people's assessment of conditional statements "if--then", agreement and disagreement with them is actively studied. This assessment of people who are not specialists in the field of logic often differs greatly from its requirements, especially if the reality observed by a person to one degree or another contradicts a formally correct logical conclusion. In ...
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Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Educational Research and Evaluation 2026 P. 1–24
This study investigates the psychometric structure and school-level associations between cognitive abilities of teachers and students. Using a cross-sectional quantitative design, we administered a PISA-based cognitive assessment tool measuring reading, mathematics, science literacy, and global competence to 5,391 eighth-grade students and 2,385 teachers from 84 schools in a Russian region. Bifactor modeling, measurement invariance testing, ...
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Natalia G. Milashchenko, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences 2025 Vol. 18 No. 10 P. 1981–1991
This study explores the employment of intertextual elements in editorial cartoons. The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the types of precedent phenomena that are used to create British and American political cartoons addressing immigration issues. To this end, the sample of 50 British and 50 American graphical texts published by quality ...
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Krongauz M., Критика и семиотика 2024 № 1 С. 112–137
The article describes the mechanisms of humor in small poetic genres that appeared on the Internet in the 2000s and were named pirozhok and poroshok. These are quatrains written in iambic tetrameter. There are no rhymes in pirozhok, but in poroshok the last line, truncated to 2 syllables, rhymes with the second. Poroshok as a ...
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Lifshits A., Менцин Ю. Л., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 8: История 2023 Т. 64 № 5 С. 94–107
There are many examples illustrating the wit of scientists, their penchant for jokes. One such example is the comic poem "The Song of the Refractor" by the Berlin student Benno Messow (1898), which imitates the famous poem "The Song of the Bell" by Friedrich Schiller. The text of this work, found in the archives of ...
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Kharina O., В кн.: Мир комиксов. Вып. 7: Изразцы, советский комикс, сёдзё-манга.: М., Екатеринбург: Фабрика комиксов : Кабинетный ученый, 2023. С. 411–422.
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Жиганова А. В., Laletina A., Социальные и гуманитарные науки на Дальнем Востоке 2021 Т. 18 № 1 С. 156–160
Обилие англицизмов в современном русском языке сопровождается усилением метаязыковой рефлексии обывателей во всех контекстах, в том числе юмористическом. В статье приводится анализ юмористических этюдов, в основе которых лежит столкновение «проглобальной» и «пролокальной» языковых идеологий. Несмотря на противопоставление этих точек зрения на развитие языка, их узнаваемость в юморе выполняет положительную консолидирующую и просветительскую функцию. ...
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Shepeleva S. A., В кн.: Сборник трудов 19-й международной конференции студентов и аспирантов «Медиа в современном мире. Молодые исследователи»Вып. 20.: СПб.: Институт «Высшая школа журналистики и массовых коммуникаций» федерального государственного бюджетного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования «Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет», 2020.
В работе предпринята попытка определить мобилизационный потенциал политического юмора на современном российском телевидении при помощи критического дискурс-анализа. ...
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Kantor V., Вопросы литературы 2023 № 1 С. 12–32
Although he mentioned more than once that Tolstoy was his idol, Aldanov, driven by the force of circumstances and catastrophic dimensions of the contemporary historical process, appears to be closer to Dostoevsky, both in terms of theory and subject matter. Scholarly writings that concern Aldanov’s understanding of chance as a historical trigger are often tinged ...
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Манукян Я. А., Trofimova N., Научный диалог 2022 Т. 11 № 6 С. 218–234
Verbal means of reflecting the situation of the coronavirus pandemic through the prism of German humor are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern language science in the study of discourses as a kind of markers of linguistic consciousness and speech behavior. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that German humorous ...
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