Prof. Dr. Willibald Ruch

Current Research Projects

Project Leader	Project Title
Harzer Ruch	Positive Psychology traits in different occupational groups
Huber Ruch	Encoding and decoding of different types of laughter: A FACS-based study with actors
Platt	Dispositions to being laughed at and ridicule and aging
Proyer	Here, there and everywhere? A multi-national project on Gelotophobia, the fear of being laughed at
Proyer Ruch	Can character strengths be trained?
	GELOPH and PhoPhiKat: Adaptations of scales to different cultures
Ruch	Cheerfulness as state and trait and enjoment: Causes, correlates, and consequences
	Humor appreciation and personality: The 3 WD studies
	Assessment of strength of character: German adaptation of the VIA-IS
	Assessement of mission orientation in pilots and its correlation with personality
Ruch Proyer	The joyful face may hide an evil mind: Individual differences in fearing laughter
	Humor among the elderly
Ruch Weber	Assessment of character strengths among adolescents: German adaptation of the VIA-Youth

Completed Research Projects

Project Leader	Project Title
Beermann Ruch	Humour and virtues
Brutsche Ruch	Effects of laughter on hyperinflation in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease
Hempelmann Ruch	A linguistic analysis of perceived and produced humor
Proyer Ruch	Reactions towards the laughter by others: On gelotophobes, gelotophiles, and katagelasticists
Ruch	Fifty years of Eysenck personality scales: A comprehensive psychometric analysis of the PEN-System
	The duchenne display as a mediator between humor and pain tolerance
	Cortical regions selective for cognitive, affective, and volitional components of humor, smiling and laughter
	Personality Profiles of Cultures: Informant Ratings of Individuals and Nations
Ruch Beermann	Character strength and virtues, ways of life, and life satisfaction
Ruch Hempelmann	The ontology of humor: Psychological and linguistic foundations
Ruch Proyer	Gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at): Assessment and application
Ruch Proyer Harzer	Orientations to happiness: What makes a happy life?
Toggweiler Ruch	Vocational interests and the PEN system of personality