New research (released this week at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Brighton, England) reveals that woman rate men with a good sense of humor (funny guys) as more intelligent than men who are not so funny (funny .. isn't it?).
Kristofor McCarty, a researcher at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England (and author of the study) said in an email to CNN, "Over the course of history, women actively look for signs that their man is intelligent, and I believe the ability to actively judge the situation and pull off a joke and make you laugh is an intelligent feat."
McCarty did a preliminary study (he invented ten fictional male characters and created funny and not-so-funny scenarios from their perspective) to test which jokes (knock, knock .. who's there? ..) and humorous statements (did you hear about the cannibal who passed a friend in the jungle?) were funny to females aged 18 to 30.
Women said that men with the funniest descriptions were significantly more likely to be candidates for a long-term relationship, as well as friends. They also rated the more amusing men as honest (I can not tell a lie) and more intelligent (the average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 149,597,887.5 km .. or there about) .
Let's face it. We "funny guys" get the babes.
Sure, the jocks may have all the looks and the muscles. However, when it really comes down to it, the ladies like someone who can, as McCarty says, "lighten up very bad situations and therefore reduce the stress response and simply enable you to get over the hump in bad parts of the relationship."
Cheryl was not part of the research and she might try to refute some of these findings (or, at least point out there are exceptions).
People used to ask her if living with me was "a laugh a minute" and her response was always the same .. running out of the room and crying uncontrollably.
Now that's not funny.
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful." - Proverbs 14:13a
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