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Sexist Jokes Favor The Mental Mechanisms That Justify Violence Against Women

Sexist jokes (and all the variants of this kind of humour) favour the mental mechanisms which urge to violence and battering against women in individuals with macho attitudes. Those are the conclusions of a study carried out at the University of Granada, released in the framework of the world most renowned international symposium about humour and its scientific applications ("International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications") that will be held in Granada. In order to carry out this research work, the scientists applied several questionnaires to a group of 109 university male students aged between 18 and 26 years old. They showed them two series of jokes, one of them with sexist jokes where women were denigrated and another one with common jokes, without any kind of sexist content. Next, the researchers proposed them several scenes with different cases of battering against women, from minor to serious attacks, to ask them how they would react in this kind of situation. They are more tolerant with violence. The work proved that those who had listened to sexist jokes were much more tolerant with male battering than those who had not, this is, that this kind of humour favours the mental mechanisms tolerant with violent behaviour towards women. However, the researchers warn those individuals affected by sexist humour showed a previous tendency to tolerate violence against women, as we can gather from a survey which weighed up sexist attitudes against women. Some of the items of the scale used by the scientist to measure men"s sexist attitudes were: "Deep down, feminist women intend women to be more powerful than men", "Most of the women do not fully appreciate what men do for them" or "There are many women who make sexual insinuations to men and later they reject their advances just to make fun of them". Notes: This work has been carried out by professors MÃönica Romero-Sánchez, Mercedes Durán, Hugo Carretero Dios, JesÃôs L. Megías and Miguel Moya, of the departments of Social and Experimental Psychology of the University of Granada. The results of this research work have been accepted to be published in the renowned US Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Reference: MÃönica Romero Sánchez. Department of Social Psychology of the University of Granada. MÃönica Romero Sánchez University of Granada


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