Production and appreciation of humor as sexually selected traits

By Eric Bressler, Rod A. Martin, S. Balshine. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Dissing Oneself versus Dissing Rivals: Effects of Status, Personality, and Sex on the Short-Term and Long-Term Attractiveness of Self-Deprecating and Other-Deprecating Humor (2008, background): “A recent study informed by sexual selection theory also found that, while females prefer a male mate who makes them laugh, males prefer a female mate who appreciates their sense of humor (Bressler, Martin, and Balshine, 2006).”
Gender Roles and Humor in Advertising: The Occurrence of Stereotyping in Humorous and Nonhumorous Advertising and Its Consequences for Advertising Effectiveness (2014, background): “In essence, females value humor abilities more than men do and tend to like men who make them laugh; by contrast, men prefer women who laugh at their humor (Bressler, Martin, and Balshine 2006).”
Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males. (2011, background): “Also, sex differences in reproductive strategies may explain why females value humor production ability more in mates (Lundy, Tan, & Cunningham, 1998), why females laugh and smile more during conversations, especially in response to humor produced by the opposite sex (Provine, 2000), and why women t”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “For a start, one study found that women find it just as important that a mate finds them funny as that they find a mate funny (Bressler et al., 2006), and another found that humor production ability is associated with number of past sexual partners for men and women (Greengross & Miller, 2011).”