Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor

Women find men's upper body strength highly desirable, albeit primarily within short-term mating contexts. This boundary implicates as possessing both costs and benefits in long-term The desirability of could be contingent upon whether the or are more salient through additional behavioral repertoires that signal a specific type intent. Men's humor style one modality to infer benefits, namely their interest affiliative relative aggressive humor. study represents synergistic replication previous work investigating various styles domains. evaluated prospective mate manipulated appear physically strong weak described using We replicated findings implicating desirable contexts However, no interactive effects between these traits emerged. Results indicate women's choices multimodal frequently involve evaluating constellations traits.