Why do women understand jokes so slowly?

But if your jokes finally make her laugh, it's still worth waiting for.

The researchers found that although women understand jokes slower than men, once they suddenly realize this, they will like them more than men.

Research shows that women use their brains more than men in understanding humor, and their expectations of jokes are lower than men's.

But once they discover the beauty of jokes, they can have more fun from them.

The researchers showed dozens of black and white cartoon pictures to 10 men and 10 women, and asked them to evaluate whether the pictures were interesting.

Although the scanning results are very similar, women use some parts of the brain more than men, including the prefrontal cortex, which can help people analyze language and filter out irrelevant information.

Researcher Allen? Professor Rice said: Our findings are consistent with the responses of men and women to humor. We find that women's prefrontal cortex is more active in processing humorous information, which shows that women use the language function area of the brain when processing stimulating information.

Women's response to stories and word games is stronger than burlesque, which can explain this discovery.

The analysis of the nucleus accumbens, which is called the happy sensory area, also shows that men and women have different attitudes towards humor. Professor Rice from Stanford University in California said: Women seem to have lower expectations for returns, which is equivalent to the punch line in the cartoon in the experiment. So once a woman understands beauty, she will enjoy it more.

The funnier the cartoon is, the more parts of the nucleus accumbens of the female brain are lit up. But the situation of men is different. They seem to have great expectations for the interest of cartoon paintings from the beginning.

Women take a little longer to react to funny jokes than men, but they can see through cold jokes faster.