Thank you for taking the Humor Preference Survey 2012. Its purpose is to test for systematic change in humor preference over age and gender, and to check against the scores of a well known personality model (B5). Please complete all three parts, you will be able to read your own scores on submitting. Your contact information will be kept in confidence.

Part 1: Please tell us who you are?

 
Your name?
Your age?
Gender? Male Female
Your self assessment of understanding English?
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Part 2: Personality assessment:

The following is a list of 50 statements, these are phrases describing people's behaviors. Please use the rating scale to describe how accurately each statement describes you. Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. Please read each statement carefully, and then fill in the bubble that corresponds to the number on the scale.

Rating Scale:

1: Very Inaccurate

2: Moderately Inaccurate

3: Neither Inaccurate nor Accurate

4: Moderately Accurate

5: Very Accurate
Am the life of the party. 1 2 3 4 5
Feel little concern for others. 1 2 3 4 5
Am always prepared. 1 2 3 4 5
Get stressed out easily. 1 2 3 4 5
Have a rich vocabulary. 1 2 3 4 5
Don't talk a lot. 1 2 3 4 5
Am interested in people. 1 2 3 4 5
Leave my belongings around. 1 2 3 4 5
Am relaxed most of the time. 1 2 3 4 5
Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
Feel comfortable around people. 1 2 3 4 5
Insult people. 1 2 3 4 5
Pay attention to details. 1 2 3 4 5
Worry about things. 1 2 3 4 5
Have a vivid imagination. 1 2 3 4 5
Keep in the background. 1 2 3 4 5
Sympathize with others' feelings. 1 2 3 4 5
Make a mess of things. 1 2 3 4 5
Seldom feel blue. 1 2 3 4 5
Am not interested in abstract ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
Start conversations. 1 2 3 4 5
Am not interested in other people's problems. 1 2 3 4 5
Get chores done right away. 1 2 3 4 5
Am easily disturbed. 1 2 3 4 5
Have excellent ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
Have little to say. 1 2 3 4 5
Have a soft heart. 1 2 3 4 5
Often forget to put things back in their proper place. 1 2 3 4 5
Get upset easily. 1 2 3 4 5
Do not have a good imagination. 1 2 3 4 5
Talk to a lot of different people at parties. 1 2 3 4 5
Am not really interested in others. 1 2 3 4 5
Like order. 1 2 3 4 5
Change my mood a lot. 1 2 3 4 5
Am quick to understand things. 1 2 3 4 5
Don't like to draw attention to myself. 1 2 3 4 5
Take time out for others. 1 2 3 4 5
Shirk my duties. 1 2 3 4 5
Have frequent mood swings. 1 2 3 4 5
Use difficult words. 1 2 3 4 5
Don't mind being the center of attention. 1 2 3 4 5
Feel others' emotions. 1 2 3 4 5
Follow a schedule. 1 2 3 4 5
Get irritated easily. 1 2 3 4 5
Spend time reflecting on things. 1 2 3 4 5
Am quiet around strangers. 1 2 3 4 5
Make people feel at ease. 1 2 3 4 5
Am exacting in my work. 1 2 3 4 5
Often feel blue. 1 2 3 4 5
Am full of ideas. 1 2 3 4 5

Part 3: Humor Preference Assessmnt:

The following is a list of 48 jokes, please score your personal preference in scale of how funny you find them, even if you have heard the joke before. Please read each joke carefully, and then fill in the bubble that corresponds to the number on the rating scale.

Rating Scale:

1: Not Funny

2: Slightly Amusing

3: Almost Funny

4: Funny

5: Very Funny
Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. 1 2 3 4 5
Why did God create man before woman? He didn't want any advice. 1 2 3 4 5
Go the extra mile; it makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. 1 2 3 4 5
A dwarf wanted to commit suicide so he jumped off the curb. 1 2 3 4 5
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 1 2 3 4 5
Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that he looks forward to the trip. 1 2 3 4 5
A child's wisdom: Never try to baptize a cat. 1 2 3 4 5
A child's wisdom: Remember you're never too old to hold your father's hand. 1 2 3 4 5
Some days you are the bug other days you are the windscreen. 1 2 3 4 5
The policeman said: The answer to this will determine whether you are drunk: Was Micky Mouse a cat or a dog? 1 2 3 4 5
Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac. 1 2 3 4 5
I love defenseless animals especially in good gravy. 1 2 3 4 5
Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to. 1 2 3 4 5
Support bacteria; they are the only culture some people have. 1 2 3 4 5
Every morning is the dawn of a new error. 1 2 3 4 5
UFO's are real; it is the Air Force that doesn't exist. 1 2 3 4 5
Better the devil you know. 1 2 3 4 5
Sign at the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases. 1 2 3 4 5
If he asks what sort of books you're interested in tell him checkbooks. 1 2 3 4 5
Three miser friends went swimming they betted whoever dives the least pays for supper; they all ended up dead. 1 2 3 4 5
I don't suffer from stress; I am a carrier. 1 2 3 4 5
He who laughs last doesn't get the joke. 1 2 3 4 5
Regular naps prevent aging especially when you take them while driving. 1 2 3 4 5
I don't approve of political jokes: I see too many get elected. 1 2 3 4 5
My opinions may have changed but not the fact that I'm right. 1 2 3 4 5
A thief went to rob a house couldn't find anything so he called long distance and left the receiver off the hook. 1 2 3 4 5
It's better to let someone think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it. 1 2 3 4 5
The voice of a 3-year old is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. 1 2 3 4 5
An idiot was painting the ceiling his mother said put a newspaper under your feet; he said I don't need it I can reach. 1 2 3 4 5
A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat. 1 2 3 4 5
Closed mouth gathers no foot. 1 2 3 4 5
George W. Bush's new strategy: A timetable for the withdrawal of all Iraqis from Iraq. 1 2 3 4 5
A child's wisdom: Listen to your brain it has a lot of information. 1 2 3 4 5
Someone asked a stoned person: What's the quickest way to the hospital? He said close your eyes and cross the street. 1 2 3 4 5
A child's wisdom: Never do pranks at a police station. 1 2 3 4 5
I hear you changed your mind! What did you do with the diaper? 1 2 3 4 5
Sign in a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions. 1 2 3 4 5
Sign on the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it. 1 2 3 4 5
Any day above ground is a good one. 1 2 3 4 5
Your potential? Leave it alone It is like your bank balance; You have less of it than what you think. 1 2 3 4 5
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you! 1 2 3 4 5
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. 1 2 3 4 5
Good girls are bad girls that never get caught. 1 2 3 4 5
God must love mediocre people. He made SO many. 1 2 3 4 5
Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. 1 2 3 4 5
If your parents didn't have any kids, there's a good chance you won't. 1 2 3 4 5
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. 1 2 3 4 5
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police. 1 2 3 4 5
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