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Almost everything that women like in men seems to have some reproductive
fitness signaling value. What about humor? Note that it’s not enough to
say that “humor is a stress reliever.” The question is, why would it
relieve stress?
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<p>The best guesses that I have:</p>
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Humor signals contextual intelligence in quick, bite-size forms. You
have to know about the local social environment and be intelligent to
be spontaneously funny.
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Humor is the mechanism via which the brain can engage in some
self-observation (nearly impossible for the brain to do otherwise) by
noticing how much of our environment is actually predictive guesses
based on pattern matching. Obviously false pattern matches (which a
lot of humor is based on) show that we can be wrong about serious
things, and so we take them, well, less seriously. This can reduce
stress.
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To make jokes, you must play with patterns and make them incomplete on
purpose. To do so, you have to be able to complete patterns as well –
the ability to reason. Therefore a humorous animal is a reasoning
animal. Do non-human animals laugh and joke around?
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<p>Any others?</p>
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