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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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The study explains a lot when you consider the overall appearance of most male comics...
Oh yeah, it's also Bastille Day in France
Let the Silliness Begin!
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07/14/2006 12:42:08 AM PDT
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sully777
To: JRios1968; Genesis defender; genefromjersey; rzeznikj at stout; bwteim; Lost Dutchman; ...
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07/14/2006 12:46:56 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: najida
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07/14/2006 12:50:35 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: MotleyGirl70; Watery Tart
Sir Galahad under the care of Drs. Piglet and Winston, with Zoot attending
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07/14/2006 12:56:19 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Slings and Arrows; MadIvan; Irish_Thatcherite; Khurkris
Happy Bastille Day everyone!
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07/14/2006 1:10:43 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: martin_fierro; rzeznikj at stout
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07/14/2006 1:13:43 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: BJClinton
All yours.
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07/14/2006 1:24:29 AM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777; MotleyGirl70
Bad, bad
sully Motley Zoot!
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07/14/2006 1:25:04 AM PDT
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Watery Tart
(Or is it her identical twin sister Dingo?)
To: sully777
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07/14/2006 1:37:12 AM PDT
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Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: sully777
The study explains a lot when you consider the overall appearance of most male comics... You forgot these guys.....
Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, Jaff Foxworthy, and Ron White GIT-R-DONE!!!!
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07/14/2006 1:53:32 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Women want me....Fish fear me....Oh well, one out of two ain't bad.)
To: sully777
Up a little early this morning and thought I'd check in from home. May be my last OFST for a while if funding doesn't arrive for my contract.
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07/14/2006 1:55:07 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Women want me....Fish fear me....Oh well, one out of two ain't bad.)
To: sully777
From the old Hollywood Squares:
Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.
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07/14/2006 2:16:11 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Sean Vanity --- Exciting, Exclusive New Developments in the Duke Rape Case -- BARF)
To: sully777
Looks like france celebrating another surrender!!!!!
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07/14/2006 2:18:07 AM PDT
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GregB
(This family supports The U. S Marines!!!!!!)
To: sully777
Well, for those of us without looks or money, I guess it's a good thing we can crack a joke or we'd never get laid.
To: sully777
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.a.k.a. to get the jeans off the women, and get them to spread.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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07/14/2006 2:40:38 AM PDT
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L.N. Smithee
(New popular baby names for daughters of liberals: Fallujah, Haditha, Murtha)
To: sully777
It all comes down to this: There is only purely natural thing the human body likes better than laughter.
Yeah. That.
Think of humor as a gateway endorphin releaser.
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07/14/2006 2:45:37 AM PDT
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L.N. Smithee
(New popular baby names for daughters of liberals: Fallujah, Haditha, Murtha)
To: sully777
Hot diggity dog!! In the top 20!1 Woooohooooo, happy Friday!
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07/14/2006 3:32:59 AM PDT
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rockabyebaby
(Say what you feel, those that matter don't mind, those that mind don't matter.)
To: L.N. Smithee; sully777
LOL! Good morning and thanks for ping, sully.
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07/14/2006 3:51:25 AM PDT
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bwteim
(Stop in at the FReepathon --- Loosen your Wallet --- Not All of the Best Things in Life are Free)
To: sully777
I'm saluting!
I'm saluting!
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posted on
07/14/2006 3:53:50 AM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?)
To: sully777
Women prefer funny men because people who laugh are healthier and tend to be less violent.... (OK, I made that up, but it seems reasonable.)
Or maybe it's because if you're going to live a long time with someone, you'd better be able to laugh.
Or that looks fade but funny endures....
George Burns -- the guy was a hottie!
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07/14/2006 4:11:11 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)
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