The Rating of Sexist Humor Under Time Pressure as an Indicator of Spontaneous Sexist Attitudes

Abstract

Spontaneous vs. more controlled indicators of sexist attitudes were assessed in a laboratory experiment with 131 male German undergraduates. Participants rated the funniness of sexist and nonsexist jokes either with or without time pressure, and completed self-report measures of sexism and related constructs. With time pressure, participants showed greater liking for sexist jokes than without. No such effect was found for nonsexist jokes. Both with and without time pressure, sexist joke ratings showed meaningful correlations with standard self-report measures, which attests to the joke measure's high reliability and construct validity. Directions for future research are discussed.

Sexist humor and social identity: the role of sexist humor in men’s in-group cohesion, sexual harassment, rape proclivity, and victim blame

“…Eyssel and Bohner 2007;Hunt and Gonsalkorale 2014). Several studies demonstrate that individuals high in hostile sexism enjoy sexist humour significantly more than individuals low in hostile sexism (Greenwood and Isbell 2002;LaFrance andWoodzicka 1998, Thomae andViki 2013) and are more willing to repeat female-disparaging jokes to friends (Thomas and Esses 2004).…”

Content Validity and Metric Properties of a Pool of Items Developed to Assess Humor Appreciation

“…In fact, the first instruments developed to assess sense of humor focused on humor appreciation (Cattell & luborsky, 1947;Cattell & Tollefson, 1966;Eysenck, 1943) and measured the degree of funniness shown by subjects when they were shown comic cartoons. results available to date have shown that this dimension has a two-fold importance; from a conceptual point of view, it grants theoretical support to general models of personality (Galloway & Chirico, 2008;ruch & Hehl, 1998); it is also considered to be important in applied research, as can be seen in very diverse areas of work (Bing, 2007;Bozikas, et al, 2007;Eyssel & Bohner, 2007;Ford, Boxer, Armstrong & Edel, 2008;Samson & Huber, 2007).…”

Gender disparaging jokes: An investigation of sexist-nonstereotypical jokes on funniness, typicality, and the moderating role of ingroup identification

“…For instance, most research focuses on stereotypical humor that targets women rather than both women and men (e.g., Eyssel and Bohner 2007;Ford et al 2001;Greenwood and Isbell 2002; for an exception see Olson et al 1999, who focus on disparaging jokes about men). Moreover, researchers sometimes test their hypotheses with exclusively male samples (e.g., Thomas and Esses 2004).…”