A study explored sex differences among tellers of sexually oriented jokes. One hundred forty-seven undergraduate students wrote and told sexually oriented jokes to same, opposite, and mixed sex audiences. These jokes were analyzed to determine whether they were biased against men or women, in favor of men or women, biased against both sexes, or…

Examined impression management and humorous message production. Prekindergarten to grade eight children's humorous messages indicated an association between age, sex, target, and prosocial-antisocial humorous themes. Prior to grade four, children produced more prosocial than antisocial humorous messages, and after grade four, produced more…