Laughing at the looking glass: does humor style serve as an interpersonal signal?

Evol Psychol · 2013 · PMC10481033 · PMID 23531806

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did not reach conventional levels of significancep = .18not close (p > 0.1)

The interaction of sex and humor style condition did not reach conventional levels of significance ( F [3, 1182] = 1.62, p = .18).

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