Each of 108 undergraduates rated the humor of 30 disparaging jokes depicting gender-stereotypic behaviors. Both 51 male and 57 female raters judged jokes as less humorous when men blundered in female roles than in their “appropriate” male roles but more humorous when women blundered in male roles than in their “appropriate” female roles.
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