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Peer reviewedTamborini, Ron; Zillmann, Dolf – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Audio-taped lectures by male or female professors were produced in four versions: no humor; sexual humor; other-disparaging humor; and self-disparaging humor. Male and female students rated lecturers' intelligence and appeal. Intelligence ratings were unaffected by humor variations, but significant lecturer-student sex interactions were found on…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Humor, Lecture Method
