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The benefits of humor as an individual coping mechanism and a social lubricant are well established. Humor helps people cope with pain and tragedy, reduces social conflict and promotes group cohesion. But Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation boost its bottom line. In a longitudinal investigation of team efficiency and productivity, they evaluated humor patterns in the regular team meetings of two industrial organizations in Germany, and then examined short-term and long-term outcomes.

To assess humor patterns, Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen first videotaped 54 different team meetings, each roughly forty-five minutes long, that collectively involved over 350 employees. If you find work meetings to be arduous and dull, you would not want to be on this research team, for the investigators then watched all of those meeting tapes and coded the team interactions. They were particularly interested in positive humor patterns, that is, upbeat, funny remarks followed by laughter. They intentionally did not include negative humor (sarcasm, put-downs) or failed humor (e.g., a joke followed by silence). After coding the humor patterns, they then evaluated what happened after the laughter.

Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen found that within the meetings, humor patterns triggered problem-solving behaviors (e.g., what do you think about this approach?), procedural suggestions (e.g., let's talk about our next step), and goal orientation (e.g., we should target this issue). Humor patterns also promoted supportive behaviors like praise and encouragement, and led to new ideas and solutions.

According to the passage, the description of the research team's work serves mainly to _____
A.restate in nonscientific terms the primary goal of the study.
B.inject a note of humor into an otherwise formal discussion of the study.
C.establish the author's critical view of the researchers' methodology.
D.underscore the quantity of data the researchers collected.

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corporation [.kɔ:pə'reiʃən]

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n. 公司,法人,集团

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issue ['iʃju:]

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n. 发行物,期刊号,争论点
vi. & vt

 
conflict ['kɔnflikt]

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n. 冲突,矛盾,斗争,战斗
vi. 冲突,争

联想记忆
minutes ['minits]

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n. 会议记录,(复数)分钟

 
silence ['sailəns]

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n. 沉默,寂静
vt. 使安静,使沉默

 
primary ['praiməri]

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adj. 主要的,初期的,根本的,初等教育的

联想记忆
methodology [.meθə'dɔlədʒi]

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n. 一套方法,方法学

 
straightforward [streit'fɔ:wəd]

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adj. 笔直的,率直的

 
dull [dʌl]

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adj. 呆滞的,迟钝的,无趣的,钝的,暗的

 
critical ['kritikəl]

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adj. 批评的,决定性的,危险的,挑剔的
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