An Empirical Analysis of Subjectivity and Narrative Levels in Weblog Storytelling Across Cultures. - Reid Swanson; Andrew S. Gordon; Peter Khooshabeh; Kenji Sagae; Richard Huskey; J. Michael Mangus; Ori Amir; René Weber (Dialogue Discourse, 2017)

Social influence of humor in virtual human counselor's self-disclosure. - Sin-Hwa Kang; David M. Krum; Peter Khooshabeh; Thai Phan; Chien-Yen Chang; Ori Amir; Rebecca Lin (Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds, 2017)

Shaping Cooperation between Humans and Agents with Emotion Expressions and Framing. - Celso M. de Melo; Peter Khooshabeh; Ori Amir; Jonathan Gratch (AAMAS, 2018)

The elephant in the room: attention to salient scene features increases with comedic expertise. - Ori Amir; Konrad J. Utterback; Justin Lee; Kevin S. Lee; Suehyun Kwon; Dave M. Carroll; Alexandra Papoutsaki (Cogn. Process., 2022)

Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert. - Joe Toplyn; Ori Amir (COLING Workshops, 2025)