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| July, 2006
| Per Study of Eric Bressler and Sigal Balshine
Posted on 07/14/2006 12:42:03 AM PDT by sully777
From the OFST Education FIles: Subgroup The Sexes and Silliness and Sex
Women Like Funny Men
Women Like Funny Men--The Study: “The influence of humor on desirability,” Evolution and Human Behavior, Jan. 2006
The Findings: Psychologists Eric Bressler and Sigal Balshine enlisted 210 undergraduate psychology students at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, to consider, for class credit, photographs of campus peers. Each photo was paired with a remark that was ostensibly funny (“My high school was so rough, we had our own coroner”) or ostensibly dull (“I like having friends over for dinner”). Women found the “funny” men most desirable, and a follow-up study showed that men preferred women who were receptive to their jokes.
Why Bother? The scientists acknowledged in their paper the well-established observation that “humor is . . . more readily appreciated in the presence of others” but wondered why it is that women prefer funny guys. Could the phenomenon be a matter of Darwinian survival? The lead scientist declined an interview, but the paper suggests that studies like it further our understanding of evolution by pinpointing which human traits might confer survival advantages. One theory is that men may “produce humor more” to help “monopolize the reproductive potential of more than one woman,” a.k.a. to spread their genes.
For the abstract click here Original study abstract
Evolution and Human Behavior Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 29-39
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine; Humor; Music/Entertainment; Reference; Science; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bastilleday; cheese; comicsex; humor; moose; punmania; punsandpunsoffun; sexyhumor; sister
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To: wallcrawlr
Sandra Bernhard she's got a weird hot sexy case of the uglies Bernhard would be hot with a nose job. She nearly walked over me at a Hollywood corner after illegally parking her Lexus and dashed into a store. She's TALL. At least 5'10" in heels.
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07/14/2006 5:54:13 PM PDT
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L.N. Smithee
(New popular baby names for daughters of liberals: Fallujah, Haditha, Murtha)
To: nuke rocketeer
LOL
Just got in. Been in training out-of-town all week with zero internet. Life is hell without FR!
To: sully777
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07/14/2006 7:01:51 PM PDT
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Izzy Dunne
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To: SquirrelKing
Hey, squirrelKing
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07/14/2006 7:12:22 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: Izzy Dunne
About sizes up this thread today. That and...
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07/14/2006 7:14:46 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: sully777
I got your undercover squirrel right here...
To: SquirrelKing
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07/14/2006 7:39:56 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: SquirrelKing
"I am the Squirrel King I can do anything!" ~~ Cletus Morrison, Jim Morrison's lesser known younger brother that was born at the Charleston Naval Reserve where their father was stationed.
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07/14/2006 7:46:07 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: SquirrelKing
Looks like this weekend's threads will be concentrating on Israel. In light of such situations, it's best to concentrate on Israel as well for the remainder of the OFST shelflife.
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07/14/2006 8:14:47 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: Izzy Dunne; SquirrelKing; rzeznikj at stout
The rest of this thread is dedicated to the IDF
If you have any IDF/IAF pictures you wish to post...by all means.
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07/14/2006 8:24:04 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: SquirrelKing
Where-ja-go?
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07/14/2006 8:47:20 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: rzeznikj at stout; BJClinton; martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows
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07/14/2006 8:51:47 PM PDT
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sully777
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07/14/2006 9:02:54 PM PDT
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rzeznikj at stout
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To: rzeznikj at stout; SquirrelKing; nuke rocketeer
It's funny high-five time
You scream like a banchee when you hit it?!
ME TOO!!!
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07/14/2006 9:16:59 PM PDT
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sully777
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07/14/2006 9:18:00 PM PDT
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rzeznikj at stout
(ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
To: Millee
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07/14/2006 9:18:40 PM PDT
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sully777
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To: rzeznikj at stout
You love k.d.lang and The Indigo Girls too?! How weird is that???
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07/14/2006 9:23:40 PM PDT
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sully777
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07/14/2006 9:24:42 PM PDT
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rzeznikj at stout
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To: rzeznikj at stout
High five me for backstage passes with the cast of Cats!!!
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07/14/2006 9:31:04 PM PDT
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sully777
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sully777
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