| Sense of Humor Scale, there were no significant effects for emotional expressiveness, liking of humor, or metamessage sensitivity. |
| I immediately changed how I talked to people, because the message that was true, the metamessage, was that they were valuable and of worth. |
| What I think does provide ground for complaint is the metamessage the book can be read as embodying. |
| The closer their guesses to the actual score, the clearer the metamessage of the text. |
