Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2012 You Had Me at Helen: The Name Letter Effect in Judgments of Humor Jenna Ryan Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Social Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Ryan, Jenna, "You Had Me at Helen: The Name Letter Effect in Judgments of Humor" (2012). Dissertations. 389. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/389 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2012 Jenna Ryan ! LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO YOU HAD ME AT HELEN: THE NAME LETTER EFFECT IN JUDGMENTS OF HUMOR A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BY JENNA FINWALL RYAN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AUGUST 2012 ! Copyright by Jenna Finwall Ryan, 2012 All rights reserved. ! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to thank the following people who were instrumental in helping realize this work and without whom this would not be possible: Dr. Fred Bryant for his support from the beginning to the end and for serving as my dissertation chair, and Dr. Scott Tindale, Dr. Arthur Lurigio, and Dr. Richard Bowen for their valuable insight as members of my dissertation committee. iii ! This is dedicated to Jack, Jack, Jr., Jakobi, Jan, Jane, Janel, Jayne, Jeff, Jeramie, Jimmy, Joe, John, Josie, Joyce, Judy, and Julia.