Every effort has been made to maintain the integrity of the authors findings. If you aren t the butt of the joke someone else is paying. Your spouse may think it s funny. As people become more educated, the difference between the gender of the joke-teller becomes less important. Most men prefer to have more women than men whereas most women prefer to have more women than men in their audience.
Women laugh more than men do unless more men are around.
When women tease men men comply. Ritualized embarrassment socializes a person into a culture or a group. People are 30 times more likely to laugh in a group than alone. Research shows that there is a small link between humor and schizophrenia. Culture can and does affect laughter.