Appreciation of humor sense in college students

Appreciation of humor includes several cognitive and social processes. None can say that two communities will laugh at the same jokes and find funny the same humorous content. This study worked differences in humor appreciation of university students and comparisons were made between sex and age of participants. To assess the appreciation of humor was built an instrument with 15 written jokes. This instrument was presented to a total sample of 81 students, divided into 3 groups of different age. Participants had to evaluate two aspects: the playfulness and the difficulty of each stimulus or humorous vignette. The jokes that showed significant differences in jocularity have a particular structure marked for a disqualifying content to men, indicating, as noted the literature, that men have more fun with sexual humor and prefers this kind of jokes as well as content related to aggressive or hostile, while women have more fun with humorous vignettes when the man is the victim and reject more when the victim is a woman. In terms of age and the appreciation of humor, there are differences in the type of situations and social contexts valued in the jokes, involving relationship between situational and social aspects of humor.

El papel de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en el proceso de State Building en Timor Oriental (2002-2012)

Esta monografía busca establecer el impacto que tuvo la participación de Organización de las Naciones Unidas en el proceso de State Building llevado a cabo en Timor Oriental entre 2002 y 2012. Para ello, se tomó como base el concepto de State Building desarrollado por Simon Chesterman, para tener las herramientas que permitieran la identificación el rol que tuvo la organización en el proceso. Es entonces que la ONU desempeñó un papel facilitador, a través de las misiones de paz instauradas en el territorio, las cuales lograron crear las instituciones que llevaron a la conformación del Estado democrático en Timor Oriental.