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   J Pers Soc Psychol. 2010 Oct;99(4):660-82.

A joke is just a joke (except when it isn't): cavalier humor beliefs
facilitate the expression of group dominance motives.

   Hodson G, Rush J, Macinnis CC.

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   Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catherine, Ontario,
   Canada. ghodson@brocku.ca

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     * J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Feb;100(2):329.

Abstract

   Past research reveals preferences for disparaging humor directed toward
   disliked others. The group-dominance model of humor appreciation
   introduces the hypothesis that beyond initial outgroup attitudes,
   social dominance motives predict favorable reactions toward jokes
   targeting low-status outgroups through a subtle hierarchy-enhancing
   legitimizing myth: cavalier humor beliefs (CHB). CHB characterizes a
   lighthearted, less serious, uncritical, and nonchalant approach toward
   humor that dismisses potential harm to others. As expected, CHB
   incorporates both positive (affiliative) and negative (aggressive)
   humor functions that together mask biases, correlating positively with
   prejudices and prejudice-correlates (including social dominance
   orientation [SDO]; Study 1). Across 3 studies in Canada, SDO and CHB
   predicted favorable reactions toward jokes disparaging Mexicans
   (low-status outgroup). Neither individual difference predicted neutral
   (nonintergroup) joke reactions, despite the jokes being equally amusing
   and more inoffensive overall. In Study 2, joke content targeting
   Mexicans, Americans (high-status outgroup), and Canadians (high-status
   ingroup) was systematically controlled. Although Canadians preferred
   jokes labeled as anti-American overall, an underlying subtle pattern
   emerged at the individual-difference level: Only those higher in SDO
   appreciated those jokes labeled as anti-Mexican (reflecting social
   dominance motives). In all studies, SDO predicted favorable reactions
   toward low-status outgroup jokes almost entirely through heightened
   CHB, a subtle yet potent legitimatizing myth that "justifies"
   expressions of group dominance motives. In Study 3, a pretest-posttest
   design revealed the implications of this justification process: CHB
   contributes to trivializing outgroup jokes as inoffensive (harmless),
   subsequently contributing to postjoke prejudice. The implications for
   humor in intergroup contexts are considered.

   PMID:
          20919777
          [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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     * Randomized Controlled Trial
     * Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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     * Adult
     * Aggression
     * Canada
     * Ethnic Groups/psychology
     * Factor Analysis, Statistical
     * Female
     * Group Processes*
     * Humans
     * Male
     * Models, Psychological
     * Motivation
     * Prejudice*
     * Psychological Tests
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     * Reproducibility of Results
     * Social Dominance*
     * Social Identification
     * Wit and Humor as Topic*

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