Resumen de “Sick” jokes, speaker sex, and informative speech

William C. Munn, Charles R. Gruner

• This study manipulated speaker sex and “sick” jokes/no‐jokes in a printed speech and secured evaluations of the speech and speaker from college student subjects. Inclusion of the “sick” jokes in the speech generally resulted in negative evaluations of both speech and speaker. The speaker was presumably perceived as using “childish” humor in the speech.