Observations reveal humor influences coping and mental health in police, suggesting culture change can improve resilience.
Humor, especially the observation of dark humor, may be a crucially convenient tool to rapidly and discreetly identify an officer carrying residual distress, and hence intervene preemptively. A more resilient force may be instilled by fostering, in agency culture, regular light humor use, and routinely encouraging adaptive coping examples.
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Anders et al. (2025) studied this question.