An Evolutionary Perspective on Humor: Sexual Selection or Interest Indication?
Are people who are funny more attractive? Or does being attractive lead people to be seen as funnier? The answer may depend on the underlying evolutionary function of humor. While humor has been proposed to signal “good genes”, the authors propose that humor also functions to indicate interest in so...
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2009
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