九則英語笑話呈現給臺中中興大學及逢甲大學學生，共分析一百九十二份解答，得到中國學生有一點點不喜觀自我吹噓型的笑話，較喜歡自嘲型的笑話四則中的一則。因此，幽默家老康及戴晨志的觀念「自嘲型笑話，較好」無法獲得充分的支持。中國人對笑話的欣賞與製造，也受嚴肅世界中面子理論所左右。性有關的笑話，被認定為低級，卻不見得不被欣賞。男性大抵比女性欣賞與性有關的笑話。

　　　　　Nine items of American English humor were presented to university students at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung and Feng Chia University. Among the nine, three were common items distributed to both the experimental and the control group. These three items show that both groups are roughly similar in their judgment of the funniness. The other six items had different referents for the experimental group and the control group. The university experimental group enjoyed one of the two Chinese macro self-bragging jokes marginally less than the control group enjoyed the bragging joke in the macro third person. However, the experimental group enjoy one of the four Chinese self-deprecating jokes significatly more than the control group enjoyed its counterpart from another culture. That is, Lao and Dai's concept is only weakly supported. Chinese cannot avoid the face concept even in the world of humor, which is a contrast to the serious world. The appreciation of a low-class joke might be higher than that of some high-class jokes; i.e., the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation shows the appreciation responses and the class evaluations to be independent of each other.