Publications

Publication details [#60467]

Abrams, Jessica R., A.M. Bippus and Karen J. McGaughey. 2015. Gender disparaging jokes: An investigation of sexist-nonstereotypical jokes on funniness, typicality, and the moderating role of ingroup identification. Humor 28 (2) : 311–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | humor | intergroup communication | joke | sexism

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Nonstereotypical sexist jokes have the biggest effect on women. Women (esp. highly identified ones) rated jokes about men (significantly) funnier than jokes about women. This provides insight into how scornful intergroup jokes serve to stress and weaken intergroup relations.