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Abstract: Participants were simultaneously in a within/between subjects design
measuring perceived humor across two conditions: one in which a joke-teller told five
ethnic stereotype jokes and one in which the joke teller told five neutral jokes. The
experiment was double blind. For each joke and scenario participants indicated whether they
were amused, disgusted, laughed, smiled, thought the ... read morescenario was wrong, and thought the
scenario was not wrong. There were two main effects found across joke teller conditions,
such that participants were less likely to smile and more likely to call a Jewish joke
wrong (p<.05). We also found a significant interaction for laughter, such that
participants that were not Jewish were more likely to laugh at a Jewish joke told by a Jew
than they were when the joke was told by a Christian (p<.05). These results indicate
that not only is joke teller key in perceived humor (i.e. laughter) of an ethnic
disparagement joke, but so is the audience. Further research could determine if the
audience being an in-group verse an out-group would change these outcomes.read less
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