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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: Chanticleer; BJClinton
To: BJClinton
I've been searching for that pun. The better half tells me sometimes that if I don't stop pun-ishing her, she might kill me.
To: nuke rocketeer
A jury would have a hard time convicting her.
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07/14/2006 10:10:16 AM PDT
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BJClinton
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To: BJClinton
That's what her cousin, a lawyer and another of my victims says too.
To: SquirrelKing
Hey, its a little slow here! Let's get squirrelly!!
To: nuke rocketeer
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07/14/2006 10:21:11 AM PDT
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BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: BJClinton
147
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07/14/2006 10:21:34 AM PDT
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BJClinton
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07/14/2006 10:22:03 AM PDT
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BJClinton
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To: BJClinton
To: BJClinton
As he said on "America's Got Talent" the other night--
"Don't Hassle the Hoff!"
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07/14/2006 10:25:26 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: sully777
Awright!
Sex and laughter...
It just doesn't get better than this.
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posted on
07/14/2006 10:25:33 AM PDT
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Kate of Spice Island
(Modern day psychic, but first I was a US soldier)
To: BJClinton
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posted on
07/14/2006 10:27:49 AM PDT
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rzeznikj at stout
(ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
To: Kate of Spice Island
To: ShadowAce
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07/14/2006 10:34:35 AM PDT
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BJClinton
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To: BJClinton
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07/14/2006 10:36:32 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: nuke rocketeer
Diapers over car keys any day!!!! Isn't that tough on the ignition?
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07/14/2006 10:38:51 AM PDT
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Chanticleer
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Lewis)
To: sully777
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07/14/2006 10:40:22 AM PDT
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SC DOC
To: sully777
Brazil's Leila Barros signals the play during the match against Japan at the Swatch FIVB Montreal Open Beach Volleyball event in Montreal Thursday, July 13, 2006. Brazil won the match in straight sets 21-16 and 21-9. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz, CP)
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07/14/2006 10:41:55 AM PDT
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finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: sully777
Mr. Zeta Jones does not appreciate the silliness today (unless he's posted):
Hey ya'll Happy Friday.
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posted on
07/14/2006 10:42:22 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
To: sully777
OK - The thread is getting dangerously silent. Time for some drastic action.
I hearby declare it BLONDE JOKE time.
A blonde and a brunette jump from the top of a building at the same time. Which one hits the ground first?
The brunette. The blonde had to stop on the way down to ask for directions.
Shalom.
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07/14/2006 10:43:08 AM PDT
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ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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