Jokes, one of humanity’s greatest entertainment tools, can’t trigger the same reaction in everyone. While some people may find a joke funny, others may find it bad and not respond at all. Agree, Does the joke that is funny just depend on the joke itself? Not according to a new study.

Scientists, in their new research they published, himself, the recipient and the sender He brought up what it takes to make a joke entertaining. The results showed that the characteristics of the listeners who heard the joke played a role, as did the joke itself.

The “funny” of the joke depends not only on the joke, but also on the listener:

In the first study, the scientists looked at the results of four different studies. The participants in these four studies found the jokes to be funny. by self-assessment consisted of. The results obtained by processing the data showed that jokes with high funny scores entertained more people. In other words, people predicted that this joke was funny by scoring the joke.

The following study addressed the missing points in the previous four studies. To fill this gap, the scientists sampled participants obtained by Prolific.co. This maximized the diversity of incentive forms and content offered by online audiences.

As a result of their analysis with extensive data, scientists have determined that the recipients of the joke, namely: differences between listeners. revealed that it played a bigger role in determining amusement percentage. Moreover, it was explained that the interaction between humor characteristics and audience characteristics plays a major role.