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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2015, 5, 423-429 Published Online July 2015 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2015.57055 Individual Differences of a Sense of Humor and Humor Types Yulian Ding, Zhoulin Lu, Wei Sun College of Education, Suzhou University, Suzhou Jiangsu Email: lotus_d@126.com th th th Received: Ju l. 7 , 2015; accepted: Jul. 24 , 2015; published: Jul. 29 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract A sense of humor is based on the extension of the humor concept. Humor types are potential indi- vidual traits, which have positive temperament of a sense of humor, understanding, love to laugh and other differences. Individual differences mainly include personality traits as well as gender difference. Individual differences mainly include personality traits as well as gender difference. The man who possesses a higher sense of humor will boast higher senses of living satisfaction and well-being. The senses of self-esteem, living satisfaction as well as well-being of the positive hu- mor type are relatively higher, while the negative one is on the contrary. Gender difference plays a role in both the sense of humor and the humor type. The increase of quantitative research on comedians, the cross-cultural research on humor type as well as the exploration of the relation- ship between humorous scenario and the audience between senses of humor and humor types is the trends to enrich the related humor studies in the future. Keywords A Sense of Humor, Humor Types, Individual Di