Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women

Some of the items of the scale used by the scientist to measure men's sexist attitudes were: "Deep down, feminist women intend women to be more powerful than men", "Most of the women do not fully appreciate what men do for them" or "There are many women who make sexual insinuations to men and later they reject their advances just to make fun of them".

This work has been carried out by professors Mónica Romero-Sánchez, Mercedes Durán, Hugo Carretero Dios, Jesús L. Megías and Miguel Moya, of the departments of Social and Experimental Psychology of the University of Granada, and will be officially presented tomorrow Thursday 2nd of July at 5 PM in the Carmen de la Victoria of Granada, within the 'International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter'.

The results of this research work have been accepted to be published in the renowned US 'Journal of Interpersonal Violence'.

Reference: Mónica Romero Sánchez. Department of Social Psychology of the University of Granada. Mobile: +34 699 876 200. E-mail:

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