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Women get a bigger buzz from cartoons

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Alan Gardner November 9, 2005 1 minute 0 comments

Interesting article on how comics are received by men vs. women.

Women and men are often perceived as having differences in their senses of humour but, until now, there had been no neurological evidence for such suspicions. The new brain scanning study showed that although men and women tended to agree on which of the single-panel cartoons they were shown were funny, they processed the humour differently in their brains.