Prof. Dr. Willibald Ruch

Current Research Projects

Project Leader	Project Title
Harzer Ruch	Positive Psychology traits in different occupational groups
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

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
Huber Ruch	Encoding and decoding of different types of laughter: A FACS-based study with actors
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
	Humor among the elderly
Ruch Proyer Harzer	Orientations to happiness: What makes a happy life?
Ruch Weber	Assessment of character strengths among adolescents: German adaptation of the VIA-Youth
Toggweiler Ruch	Vocational interests and the PEN system of personality