Data and code supporting the study "Statistically significant chuckles—Who's using humor at scientific conferences?"

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Authors: Stefano Mammola, Diego Fontaneto, Andrea Santangeli, Krista Natasha Oswald, Ricardo Correia, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Vanessa De Santis, Victoria Stout
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29505023
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Abstract

Data and R code to reproduce the analysis in:Mammola S. et al. (2026). Statistically significant chuckles—Who's using humor at scientific conferences? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Science, doi: 10.1098/rspb (in press)This repository contain a README file (available as a .txt or .md, and containing all the information about the datasets and analysis), two datasets (db_talks.csv and db_jokes.csv), and a R code (Mammola_et_al_code.r).

Fields of Study & Subjects

Humor Studies and Applications Academic Publishing and Open Access scientometrics and bibliometrics research

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Figshare
Publication date
1 January 2026
Document type
Dataset