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Study: Aging Makes Jokes Less Funny
Researchers at Washington University believe that older adults have a harder time understanding jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.
"This wasn't a study about what people find funny. It was a study about whether they get what's supposed to be funny,'' Carpenter said.
"There are basic cognitive mechanisms to understanding what's going on in a joke. Older adults, because they may have deficits in some of those cognitive areas, may have a harder time understanding what a joke is about.''
The findings were published earlier this month in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
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