Examined humor appreciation of cartoons as a function of sex and type of humor. Four broad types of humor were presented：sexual-exploitative, sexual-non exploitative, nonsexual-hostile, and nonsexual-nonhostile, Sexual-non exploitative humor was given a more postive overall rating than the other types . Relative to males, females gave greater ratings of hostility to the cartoons and rated them less positively. Correlational analyses further suggested that females greater ratings of sexuality were associated with greater funniness ratings while the reverse was ture for greater ratings of hostility. Possible interpretations of these data were discussed.
●Freud(1960) suggested that appreciation for humor depends upon the drive state that one is experiencing. Thus, a state of hostility hostile humor and sexual arousal leads to increased appreciation of sexual humor.
●To the extent that sexual humor is a taboo less humorous than would males. But growing evidence (Baron & Byrne, 1977) suggest that sex differences in the area of sexual behavior are diminishing and thus we might expect that male and females would appreciate sexual humor equally.
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