Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males.

By Gil Greengross, G. Miller. 2011

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior (2018, background): “Consequently, consumers also pursue a range of social goals, including persuading others, forming alliances (i.e., affiliation), gaining status and esteem, and attracting lovers (Griskevicius, Haselton, and Ackerman 2015; Kenrick et al. 2010; Park et al. 2013).”
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto (2012, background): “Videos and ratings of male musicians, dancers, and comedians could also reveal cycle effects on preferences for musical talent, dance ability, or sense of humor and clarify whether these traits evolved as signals of good genes (Fitch, 2006; Greengross & Miller, 2011; Hugill, Fink, & Neave, 2010).”
Intelligence and Creativity Are Pretty Similar After All (2015, background): “Although this is a small area, several studies have found notable effects of fluid and crystallized intelligence on humor production (e.g., Greengross and Miller 2011; Howrigan and MacDonald 2008), which is measured by asking people to write captions for cartoons, complete jokes with funny endings,…”
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).”
The Cognitive Differentiation-Integration Effort Hypothesis: A Synthesis between the Fitness Indicator and Life History Models of Human Intelligence (2011, background): “…brain such as neural plasticity—individual differences in the capacity to adapt neural connections to differential environmental demands (Garlick, 2002) and information processing or neural efficiency (Chiang et al., 2009; Eysenck, 1994a; Haier, 1993; Jensen, 1998; E. Miller, 1994b; Vernon, 1992).”
Sharing a joke: The effects of a similar sense of humor on affiliation and altruism (2013, background): “…is a universallydesired trait, amongst both men and women (Buss & Barnes, 1986), is one of the most commonly listed traits in lonely-hearts advertisements (from a re-analysis of data collected in (Pawlowski & Dunbar, 1999)), and predicts intelligence and mating success (Greengross & Miller, 2011).”