Sex differences in humor production ability: A meta-analysis

Greengross, Gil; Silvia, Paul J.; Nusbaum, Emily C.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103886

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“…Both traits are pervasive in humor research, and both are associated with viewing oneself as a funny person (Silvia et al, 2020) and using humor in everyday life (Heintz, 2017). For gender, men's self-ratings were higher than women's, consistent with a large literature on lower humor self-efficacy in women (Caldwell & Wojtach, 2020;Hooper et al, 2016;Silvia et al, 2020) and an edge for men in lab-based humor tasks (Greengross et al, 2020). For both personality and gender, the effects were generally small in magnitude.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…In American and UK samples, for example, women have lower humor self-efficacy (Caldwell & Wojtach, 2020;Silvia et al, 2020) and view being a funny person as more peripheral to their self-concept (Silvia et al, 2020). A meta-analysis of lab-based humor production studies found a small advantage for men (Greengross et al, 2020), so these self-beliefs have parallels in behavioral contexts.…”

Section: Self-rated Humormentioning

confidence: 99%

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If You’re Funny and You Know It: Personality, Gender, and People’s Ratings of Their Attempts at Humor

Silvia¹,

Greengross²,

Cotter³

et al. 2020

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In seven studies (n = 1,133), adults tried to create funny ideas and then rated the funniness of their responses, which were also independently rated by judges. People were relatively modest and self-critical about their ideas. Extraversion (r = .12 [.07, .18], k =7) and openness to experience (r = .09 [.03, .15], k = 7) predicted rating one’s responses as funnier; women rated their responses as less funny (d = -.28 [-.37, -.19], k = 7). The within-person correlation between self and judge ratings was small but significant (r = .13 [.07, .19], k = 7), so people had some insight into their ideas’ funniness.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

Section: Self-rated Humormentioning

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If You’re Funny and You Know It: Personality, Gender, and People’s Ratings of Their Attempts at Humor

Silvia¹,

Greengross²,

Cotter³

et al. 2020

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“…Should cultural norms sever these associations, then we may expect people to give humor less priority. However, there has yet to be a comprehensive examination of the cultural differences in the function of humor as a pathway to status (Greengross, Silvia, & Nusbaum, ) and so this idea warrants investigation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Thomas

Jonason

Blackburn

et al. 2019

Journal of Personality

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Objective Mate choice involves trading‐off several preferences. Research on this process tends to examine mate preference prioritization in homogenous samples using a small number of traits and thus provide little insight into whether prioritization patterns reflect a universal human nature. This study examined whether prioritization patterns, and their accompanying sex differences, are consistent across Eastern and Western cultures. Method In the largest test of the mate preference priority model to date, we asked an international sample of participants (N = 2,477) to design an ideal long‐term partner by allocating mate dollars to eight traits using three budgets. Unlike previous versions of the task, we included traits known to vary in importance by culture (e.g., religiosity and chastity). Results Under low budget conditions, Eastern and Western participants differed in their mate dollar allocation for almost every trait (average d = 0.42), indicating that culture influences prioritization. Despite these differences, traits fundamental for the reproductive success of each sex in the ancestral environment were prioritized by both Eastern and Western participants. Conclusion The tendency to prioritize reproductively fundamental traits is present in both Eastern and Western cultures. The psychological mechanisms responsible for this process produce similar prioritization patterns despite cross‐cultural variation.

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“…In the United States, for example, there are widely held stereotypes about gender and humor, such as the belief that "women aren't funny" (e.g., Hitchens, 2007;Hooper et al, 2016;Mickes et al, 2012). A recent meta-analysis did show a small advantage for men (Greengross et al, 2020), but the proposed…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Funny Selves: Development of the Humor Efficacy and Identity Short Scales (HEISS)

Silvia¹,

Rodriguez²,

Karwowski³

2020

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Although humor is a universal feature of human communication, people vary widely in how they create and use humor. Guided by a broader model of creative self-beliefs, we developed the Humor Efficacy and Identity Short Scales (HEISS), a pair of 4-item scales measuring humor self-efficacy (confidence beliefs about one’s ability to be funny) and humor identity (the centrality of humor ability to one’s self-concept). Using a large sample of English speakers (n = 1842), an item response theory analysis found a suitable range of item difficulty, good item discrimination, and essentially zero gender-based differential item functioning. Follow-up samples with English (n= 304) and Polish (n = 385) speakers found conceptually consistent relationships with humor backgrounds and experiences (e.g., taking classes and holding jobs involving humor) and with Big 5 personality traits. Taken together, these scales show promise for research on people’s humor self-concepts and for studies of gendered aspects of humor use, creation, and appreciation.

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Sex differences in humor production ability: A meta-analysis

Cited by 47 publications

References 104 publications

If You’re Funny and You Know It: Personality, Gender, and People’s Ratings of Their Attempts at Humor

If You’re Funny and You Know It: Personality, Gender, and People’s Ratings of Their Attempts at Humor

Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Funny Selves: Development of the Humor Efficacy and Identity Short Scales (HEISS)

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