M.Sc. Tracey Platt
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
2006-2008: Master of Science (M.Sc.) Work and Organisational Psychology
2001-2006: Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Psychology
1979-1984: O Level, 16+, GSE
Publications
Journal articles
Platt, T. (2008). Emotional Responses To Ridicule and Teasing: Should Gelotophobes React Differently? Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 21 (2), 105-128. (read here, access to the full text may be restricted at times)
Platt, T. & Ruch, W. (2009) The emotions of Gelotophobes: Shameful, fearful and joyless? Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 22(1-2), 91-110. (read here, access to the full text may be restricted at times)
Proyer, R. T, Ruch, W., Ali, N. S., Al-Olimat, H. S., Amemiya T., Adal, T. A., Ansari, S. A., Arhar, Š., Asem, G., Baudin, N., Bawab S., Bergen, D., Brdar, I., Brites, R., Brunner-Sciarra, M., Carrell A., Carretero Dios, H., Celik, M., Ceschi, G., Chang, K, Chao-chih, L., Cheryomukhin, A., Chik, M. P. Y., Chlopicki, W., Cranney, J., Dahourou, D., Doosje, S., Dore, M., El-Arousy, N., Fickova, E., Führ, M., Gallivan, J., Geling, H., Germikova, L., Giedraityte, M., Goh, A., González, R. D., Guohai, C., Ho, S. K., Hrebícková, M., Jaime, B., Jun, W., Hertzberg Kaare, B., Kamble, S., Kazarian, S., Kerkkanen, P., Klementová, M., Kobozeva, I. M., Kovjanic, S., Kumaraswamy, N., Lampert, M., Levesque, M., Loizou, E., Loving, R. D., Lyttle, J., Machline, V. C., McGoldrick, S., Min, L., McRorie, M., Mõttus, R, Munyae, M. M., Navia, C. E., Nkhalamba, M., Pedrini, P. P., Petkova, M., Platt, T., Popa, D.-E., Radomska, A., Rashid, T., Rawlings, D., Rubio, V. J., Samson, A. C., Sarid, O., Shams, S., Sisokohm, S., Jakob, S., Snikhovska, I., Stephanenko, E. A., Stokenberga, L., Stuer, H., Tanoto, Y. S. R., Tapia, L., Taylor, J., Thibault, P., Thompson, A., Thörn, H., Toyota, H., Ujlaky, J., Vanno, V., van der Westhuizen, B., Wijayathilake, D., Wong, P. S. O., Wycoff, E. B, & Yeun, E. J. (2009). Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 22(1-2), 253-279. (read here, access to the full text may be restricted at times)
Platt, T., Proyer, R.T., & Ruch, W. (2009). Gelotophobia and bullying: The assessment of the fear of being laughed at and its application among bullying victims. Psychology Science Quarterly, 52, 135-137. (link)
Platt, T., Ruch, W. & Proyer, R.T. (2010). A lifetime of the fear of being laughed at: An aged perspective. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 43, 36-41 .
Platt, T. & Ruch, W. (2010). Gelotophobia and age: Do dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at predict coping with age-related vulnerabilities? Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling 52, 231-244.
Carretero-Dios, H., Ruch, W., Agudelo, D., Platt, T., & Proyer, R. T. (2010). Fear of being laughed at and social anxiety: A preliminary psychometric study. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 52, 108-124.
Proyer, R. T., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2010). Self-conscious emotions and ridicule: Shameful gelotophobes and guilt free katagelasticists. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 54-58.
Proyer, R. T., Neukom, M., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Assessing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in children: An initial study on how six to nine-year-olds deal with laughter and ridicule and how this relates to bullying and victimization. Child Indicators Research, 4, 1-20. doi:10.1007/s12187-011-9127-1
Platt, T., Ruch, W., Hofmann, J., & Proyer, R. T. (in press). Extreme fear of being laughed at: Components of gelotophobia. The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal.
Proyer, R. T., Flisch, R., Tschupp, S., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2012). How does psychopathy relate to humor and laughter? Dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at, the sense of humor, and psychopathic personality traits. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 34, 263-268.
Ruch, W., Proyer, R. T., & Platt, T (in press). Dispositions towards being laughed at and ridicule: Gelotophobia and more … what we know and we would like to know. Impuls - Journal of Psychology.
Platt, T., Hofmann, J., Ruch, W., & Proyer, R. T. (in press). Duchenne Display Responses Towards Sixteen Enjoyable Emotions: Individual Differences between No and Fear of Being Laughed At. Motivation and Emotion.
Ruch, W., Hofmann, J., & Platt, T. (2013). Investigating facial features of four types of laughter in historic illustrations. European Journal of Humor Research, 1, 98-118.
Proyer, R. T., Meier, L., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (in press). Dealing with laughter and ridicule in adolescence: Relations with bullying and emotional responses. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal.
Führ, M., Platt, T., & Proyer, R. T. (in press). Testing the relations of gelotophobia with humor as a coping strategy and self-ascribed loneliness, reflectivity, attractiveness, self-acceptance, and life expectations. European Journal of Humour Research.
Ruch, W., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Vuori, A. (2013). Die Stärken der Pfadi: Positives Erleben und positive Eigenschaften bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in Jugendverbänden [The strengths of the scouts: Positive experience and positive traits in children and adolescents participating in youth organizations]. Psychologie und Erziehung (P&E 1.13), 39, 22-31.
Book Chapters
Platt, T., & Forabosco, G. (2012). Gelotophobia: The fear of being laughed at. In P. Gremigni (Ed.), Humor and health promotion (pp.229-252). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Ruch, W. & Platt, T. (2012). Separating content and structure in humor appreciation: The need for a bimodal model and support from research into aesthetics. In Nijhold, A. (Ed.), 3rd International workshop on computational humor (pp. 23-27). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: University of Amsterdam.
Platt. T. & Ruch, W. (2012). 3 WD Humor Test. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of humor studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Conference Proceedings
Niewiadomski, R., Hofmann, J., Urbain, J., Platt, T., Wagner, J., Piot, B., Cakmak, H., Pammi, S., Baur, T., Dupont, S., Geist, M., Lingenfelser, F., McKeown, G., Pietquin, O., & Ruch, W. (in press). Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement. In T. Ito, C. Jonker, M. Gini, and O. Shehory (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013). May, 6–10, 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Platt, T., Hofmann, J., Ruch, W., Niewiadomski, R., & Urbain, J. (2012). Experimental standards in research on AI and humor when considering psychology. Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of Humor Proceedings, Washington, USA, 2-4 of November, 54-61.
Hofmann, J., Ruch, W., & Platt, T. (2012). The en- and decoding of schadenfreude laughter. Sheer joy expressed by a Duchenne laugh or emotional blend with a distinct morphological expression? Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, 26-27 of October, 8-10.
Niewiadomski, R., Pammi, S., Sharma, A., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Cruz, R.T., Qu, B. (2012). Visual laughter synthesis: Initial approaches. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, 26-27 of October, 10-12.
Urbain, J., Niewiadomski, R., Hofmann, J., Bantegnie, E., Baur, T., Berthouze, N., Cakmak, H., Cruz, R. T., Dupont, S., Geist, M., Griffin, H., Lingenfelser, F., Mancini, M., Miranda, M., McKeown, G., Pammi, S., Pietquin, O., Piot, B., Platt, T., Ruch, W., Sharma, A., Volpe, G., & Wagner, J. (2013). Laugh Machine. Proceedings eNTERFACE’12. The 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, 2nd – 27th of July 2012 (pp. 13-34). Metz, France: Supélec.
Poster Presentations at professional conferences
Niessen, S., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Ruch, W., & Auerbach, S. (2013, April). Clown therapy in dementia - embarassment or happiness? AATH's 26th Annual Conference The Home for Humor & Laughter Professionals!, April 4-7, San Diego.
Auerbach, S., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2012, May). Assessment of emotional states induced by hospital clowns: Positive affect, cheerfulness, and beyond? Poster session presented at the 8th LiMaDoKo of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Hiltebrand, D., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2012). Do gelotophobes rationally interpret teasing differently? Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Ruch, W. & Proyer, R. (2012). Testing Darwin: what can we learn from historic authors on laughter. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Ruch, W. & Proyer, R. (2012). The joyful face may hide an evil mind: When joy signals contempt. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Kuster, L., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2012). Humorproduktion bei Comedians: über sich selbst und über andere lachen. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Niessen, S., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Ruch, W., & Auerbach, S. (2012, May). Clown therapy in dementia - embarassment or happiness? Poster session presented at the 8th LiMaDoKo of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Platt, T., Agius, J., & Ruch, W. (2012, May). Fear of Being Laughed at and Adults Who Stutter. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Stoffel, F., Weber, A., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2012). Facial responses to 16 enjoyable emotions. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 31th of May, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Auerbach, S., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2012, April). Clown equals clown equals nurse? The uniqueness of hospital clown interventions compared to circus clowns and nursing staff. Poster session presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Auerbach, S., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2012, April). Humor and love? An investigation of the core aspects of clowning in health settings. Poster session presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., Auerbach, S., & Ruch, W. (2012, April). Send in the clowns! But how? Current issues and research questions in therapeutic clown intervention and evaluation studies. Poster session presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Platt, T., Hofmann, J., Auerbach, S., & Ruch, W. (2012, April). Can observed responses to clown interventions be a first step in understanding the clown/patient dynamic? Poster session presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Auerbach, S., Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Do hospital clowns elicit different emotions than circus clowns and nursing staff? A pilot study. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Auerbach, S., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2011). How many dimensions are needed to explain the emotional responses elicited by clown videos? Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Hiltebrand, D., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2011). The Effect of Empathy and Ability to Decode Emotion Displays of Smiling and Laughter on Gelotophobia – an Outlook on a Study Conducted Later This Year. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Experience of joy in gelotophobia: Does the fear of being laughed at influence facial responses to pleasurable emotions? – FACS study. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Is the fear of being laughed at influencing facial responses to pleasurable emotions? Poster presented at the 2nd World Congress of Positive Psychology (IPPA), 2011, Philadelphia, USA.
Klohe, K., Hain, F., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2011). Do dispositions towards laughter affect boys’ and girls’ perceptions of bullying? Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2011). Are gelotophobes anhedonic? Or is no joy experienced only in the enjoyable emotions that elicit laughter? Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zürich.
Stoffel, F., Weber, A., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2011). Gelotophobie und soziale Angst: Unterschiedliche mimische Reaktionen auf freudvolle Emotionen anderer- ein Konzept. Poster presented at the LiMaDoKo (Lizentianden, Master und Doktoranden Kongress des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Zürich) 2011, University of Zurich.
Platt, T., Chao-Chih, L., & Ruch, W. (2010). Is the effect of gelotophobia on the emotional responses to mean-spirited ridicule and playful teasing evident in Taiwan? LiDoKo 10 Kongress, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Platt, T., Proyer, R. T. and Ruch, W. (2009, May). The dominant emotions in teasing and ridicule and levels of gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism. What are the differences? Poster session presented at the LiDoKo 09 Kongress, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Platt, T. (2007, February). How do Gelotophobics react emotionally to ridicule and teasing? Poster session presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Panama City Beach, FL.
Proyer, R. T., Ruch, W., Altfreder, O., Birden, L., Dore, M., Chao-chih Liao, L., Guohai, C., Jaime, B., Mugrauer, G., Papousek, I., Platt, T., Rashid, T., Rubio, V. J., Samson, A., Toyota, H., & Velickaite, A. (2007, February). Gelotophobia: A multi-national study in 14 countries. Poster session presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Panama City Beach, FL.
Proyer, R. T., Birden, L., Platt, T., Altfreder, O., Glauser, N., and Ruch, W. (2005, July) Gelotophobia: Are there cross-national differences? Poster session presented at the 9th European Congress of Psychology. Granada, Spain.
Velickaite, A., Proyer, R. T., Platt, T., Altfreder, O., Mugrauer, G., Doren, M., Belen Jaime, E. & Ruch, W. (2005). Nationale und kulturelle Unterschiede in einem neuen Persönlichkeitskonstrukt: Gelotophobie. 8. Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe für Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik, 26.-27. September 2005, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Talks at professional conferences
Platt, T., Hofmann, J., & Ruch, W. (2012). Coy about Joy: A FACS study. 24th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland. (25- 29th June, 2012).
Platt, T., Ruch, W., Hofmann J., & Proyer, R.T. (2012). Extreme fear of being laughed at using hierarchical factor analysis for identifying components of gelotophobia. 24th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland. (25- 29th June, 2012).
Platt, T., , Hofmann, J., Ruch, W., Niewiadomski, R., & Urbain, J. (2012). Experimental standards in research on AI and humor when considering psychology. AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Artificial Intelligence of Humor, Washington, DC, USA. (2nd - 4th November, 2012).
Platt, T. (2011). Interview with a gelotophobe. Individual Differences in enjoyment signal responses to humorous stimuli: A FACS study. 23rd Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, July 5-9, Boston University, USA. (Graduate Student Award talk)
Platt, T., Proyer, R. T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Dispositions towards laughter from a cultural context: Emotional responses to teasing and ridicule scenarios. 23rd Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, July 5-9, Boston University, USA. (Presentation held at the Symposium: Dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at from a cross-cultural perspective)
Hofmann, J., Platt, T., & Ruch, W. (2011). Interview with a gelotophobe: Does gelotophobia influence facial responses to 16 pleasurable emotions? A FACS study. “Building Bridges” Biannual Conference of the Swiss Psychological Association, 12-13 of September, 2011, Fribourg.
Platt, T., Proyer, R. T., and Ruch, W. (2010). It’s not all about fear. The implications of shame and joy in playful interactions for gelotophobes. Kongress and Symposium “Ein Glückfall Humor”, 17- 18th September, 2010, Bad Zurzach.
Platt, T., Proyer, R. T. and Ruch, W. (2009). Different emotional topography during social interaction involving teasing and ridicule. 11th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society, August 19-20th, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Platt, T., Proyer, R. T. and Ruch, W. (2009, July). The variations in intensity of joy, fear and shame in gelotophobes, gelotophiles and katagelasticists. 9th International Summer School and Symposium on Humor and Laughter, University of Granada, Spain.
Platt, T. (2008, June). Could understand emotional responses of gelotophobes’ to social situations be the key to unlocking this prevalent problem? British Psychological Society North East Branch Annual Conference. University of Leeds, UK.
Platt, T. (2007, October). You’re Laughing At Me! Gelotophobe’s perception and possible impact in the workplace. British Psychological Society, Afternoon Symposium of Sport Science, Mental Toughness and Work Psychology. University of Hull, UK.
Invited talks
Platt, T. (2011). Differences of Duchenne smiles for those with fear of being laughed at. 11th International Summer School on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. (15-20th August, 2011).
Hofmann, J., & Platt, T. (2011). Facial Expressions of Emotions: Application to Smiling and laughter; FACS). University of Bern, Bern.
Platt, T., & Hofmann, J. (2011). What the face reveals: Smiling and laughter. Using the Facial Action Coding System in research on human emotions. Steirian Psychological Association, University of Graz, Graz.
Platt, T. (2012). What the face reveals: Smiling and laughter using the Facial Action Coding System. The 12th International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Application. Savonlinna Campus, Savonlinna, University of Savonlinna, Finnland.
FACS Workshops
Two day doctorate workshop in Graz (3th and 4th of December 2011)
How to measure smiling and Laughter: Learning the basics of the Facial Action Coding System- FACS Workshop. 11th International Summer School on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. (15-20th August, 2011).
Awards
- International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) - 2011 Graduate Student Award
- 11th International Summer School on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. (15-20th August, 2011). Best Symposium talk 2011.
Grants held
2006: “Bringing Psychology to Society” The British Psychological Society.
Research interests
- Humor (Gelotophobia, Laughter)
- Emotion
- Facial Action Coding System (Emotional contagion)
- Social interactions (Non-verbal communication)
- Personality & Individual differences
Research projects
- Humorous interactions in hospitals and homes
- Humor of clowns (Class Clowns)
- Gelotophobia and enjoyable emotions
- Realistic gelotophobes? Are they the same as general gelotophobes?
For further information on research projects see here
Membership
- British Psychological Society. Graduate basis for registration
- British Psychological Society. Psychological Test Centre registered
- International Society for Humor Studies
- International Society for Research on Emotions
Websites
Gelotophobia.org gelotophobia assessment and research association
Scientific
Function
2004/2008: British Psychological Society, North East of England Branch, Honorary Secretary
2011- ongoing: International Humor Summer School Advisory Board Secretary
Consultation
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