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Competence and intelligence are also a way of intimidating, though there is likely multiplicative utility with looks though. Intelligence is often signaled by humor which is things that need some amount of filling the blank, but can be fluently processed<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref> yet aren't boring. Laughing is used to pay respect, but also that one was able to process it oneself (thereby also displaying dominance in intellect). As in other status domains, people are very conservative in whom they admit higher intelligence status as this entails reduced [[reproductive success]] for oneself, so people do rarely laugh e.g. at jokes made by someone of lower status or who is a fierce rival.