Li Norman P, Griskevicius Vladas, Durante Kristina M, Jonason Peter K, Pasisz Derek J, Aumer Katherine
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2009 Jul;35(7):923-36. doi: 10.1177/0146167209334786. Epub 2009 Apr 30.
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 social relationships-in initiating new relationships and in monitoring existing ones. Consistent with this interest indicator model, across three studies both sexes were more likely to initiate humor and to respond more positively and consider the other person to be funny when initially attracted to that person. The findings support that humor dynamics--and not just humor displays--influence romantic chemistry for both men and women, suggesting that humor can ultimately function as a strategy to initiate and monitor social relationships.
有趣的人更有吸引力吗？还是有吸引力会让人们被视为更有趣？答案可能取决于幽默潜在的进化功能。虽然有人提出幽默是 “优质基因” 的信号，但作者认为幽默还起到表明对社会关系感兴趣的作用 —— 无论是建立新关系还是维持现有关系。与这种兴趣指标模型一致，在三项研究中，无论男女，当最初被某人吸引时，都更有可能发起幽默行为，更积极地回应并认为对方有趣。这些发现支持了幽默动态 —— 而不仅仅是幽默表现 —— 会影响男女之间的浪漫化学反应，这表明幽默最终可以作为一种建立和维持社会关系的策略。
