Dr. Melissa Mork - The Power of Humor
Posted by Jeff Benson
on Jul 01, 2014
Dr. Melissa Mork, a psychology professor and chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul, spoke to us about the power of humor in our daily lives. As a clinical psychotherapist and bereavement counselor, she has studied how humor affects as individuals and as a community. She outlined the four primary humor styles; aggressive, self-deprecating, affiliative and self-enhancing, and discussed the benefits of each along with the potential risks when the audience or target of the humor isn't receptive to the joke. Humor plays a major role in Melissa's work as a teacher, psychotherapist and bereavement counselor, facilitating learning resilience and healing. An informative and entertaining presentation...Thanks, Melissa!