Women and Men Get to the Joke Differently

STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 8 - Men and women process Blondie and Dagwood differently, just as they do with Charlie Brown and Lucy. Beetle Bailey too. --- MRI scanning of men and women shows that their brains process cartoons slightly differently -- especially when the joke is funny. But the differences don't show up in behavior. Both sexes find pretty much the same things funny and, for a given joke, tend to give it an equivalent humor rating.