Someone did a study on the correlation between political identity and humor. Surprise surprise, conservatives tend to not be very humorous people: > Within the

Someone did a study on the correlation between political identity and humor. Surprise surprise, conservatives tend to not be very humorous people: > Within the sphere of nonsense humor, conservatives were intolerant of jokes that failed to provide resolution of incongruous elements. Such results confirm the hypothesis that conservatives seek emotional control and cognitive closure compared with liberals, who are comfortable with more abandoned self expression and thought processes. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.848.2563&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.848... [pdf]