That’s Not Funny: The Humor of Diogenes

A Framework for Thinking about the (not-so-funny) Effects of Sexist Humor

The prevalence of sexist humor in popular culture and its disguise as benign amusement or “just a joke” give it potential to cultivate distress and harassment for women and to facilitate tolerance of sexism and discriminatory behavior among men. Thus, understanding the social consequences of sexist humor is a critical project for research in social psychology. The purpose of our paper is to pro...

One does not simply produce funny memes! - Explorations on the Automatic Generation of Internet humor

This paper reports on the automatic generation of image macro based Internet memes – potentially funny combinations of an image and text, intended to be spread in social networks. Memes are produced for news headlines for which, based on linguistic features, a suitable macro is selected and the text is adapted. The generation method is described together with its current implementation, which i...

Who's funny: gender stereotypes, humor production, and memory bias.

It has often been asserted, by both men and women, that men are funnier. We explored two possible explanations for such a view, first testing whether men, when instructed to be as funny as possible, write funnier cartoon captions than do women, and second examining whether there is a tendency to falsely remember funny things as having been produced by men. A total of 32 participants, half from ...

Strategically Funny: Romantic Motives Affect Humor Style in Relationship Initiation

Not all humor is the same, yet little is known about the appeal of specific humor styles in romantic initiation. The current experimental study addresses this gap by investigating how romantic motives (short-term or long-term) affect individuals' anticipated use of, and response to, positive humor and negative humor. Heterosexual participants (n = 224) imagined the pursuit of either a desired s...

Running Head: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HUMOR Who’s Funny: Gender Stereotypes, Humor Production, and Memory Bias