Humor as a double-edged weapon in psychopathology: light and dark humor styles, coping, and personality in police mental health
Humor, especially the observation of dark humor, may be a crucially convenient tool to rapidly and discreetly identify an officer carrying residual distress, and hence intervene preemptively. A more resilient force may be instilled by fostering, in agency culture, regular light humor use, and routinely encouraging adaptive coping examples.
Authors
- Royce Anders (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-3385)
- Benjamin Putois (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1484-6109)
- Lauriane Willemin-Petignat
Institutions
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (FR)
- Federal Department of Justice and Police (CH)
- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (FR)
- Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (FR)
- Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (CH)
- UniDistance Suisse (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-025-00485-2
- Primary Topic
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00