Friday, February 3, 2006

What's a sense of humor?

As presented at a lecture for Dr. Sigal Balshine's sociobiology course at McMcaster, Bressler's survey showed that "Even though being around funny people and having them appreciate your own humor are both rewarding experiences, women will ultimately prefer humor producers as relationship partners, while men will prefer appreciators of their own humor." In other words, while both sexes value a "sense of humor" in their dates, women tend to define this as a partner's ability to make them laugh, while men define it as a partner's capacity to laugh at their jokes.

The Journal Times Online :: What's laughter got to do with it?