I’ve experienced a lot of girlfriends laughing heavily at my antics, but rarely do I find myself in the reverse.  Next month’s Vanity Fair offers an explanation.

“Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the cartoon,” said the report’s author, Dr. Allan Reiss. “So when they got to the joke’s punch line, they were more pleased about it.” The report also found that “women were quicker at identifying material they considered unfunny.”

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