You can always guess this, but it’s still reassuring to know that it’s been empirically verified.
Perhaps one of the most common anticipation On dating sites for both men and women to make a funny ‘applicant’. Of course, no one wants to spend their life with someone who’s swallowed a stake, but even one- or several-night adventures are much more fun with a partner with a sense of humor.
the to examine It was held in the USA and Norway, with the participation of researchers from a total of three institutes, one Norwegian and two American. Primarily, the gender of the spinners and the “purpose and context” of the courtship were taken into account. There were a total of 415 participants in the US focus group, 44 percent of whom were male, and 31 percent of the 577 participants in the Norwegian focus group. They had to randomly answer the questions of one of four questionnaires, with which they formulated courtship attitudes, conditions, and motives.
In the questionnaires, two types of “dating goals” were examined, distinguishing between the intention to have a long-term relationship and a short-term relationship. On the one hand, an unsurprising finding was that women valued the signals they received during courtship that their partner was “sexually available” more when their goal was a short-term relationship. Signs of generosity and commitment are clearly well received if they are considering a long-term relationship.
Interestingly, when the women who intended to form a short-term relationship had a sense of humor, the men didn’t find them very attractive. On the other hand, laughing at the other person’s jokes has proven effective for both sexes.
There were assumptions that women’s humor “above a certain level” could scare off men. According to them, men see a woman who is too funny as a kind of competitor who can threaten the instinctive attitude in which entertaining a woman is part of some kind of basic care. Of course, all this is a feeling, the evolutionary effort of the subconscious mind, with which it eliminates potential sources of danger to improve the conservation of the species – because after all, it is from Loud He dumped his girlfriend because very funny. Well, right.
