Another study by Abel (1998) suggests that perceived sense of humor moderates stress and anxiety correlates only for men. Later, Abel and Maxwell (2002) found that humor elicits positive affect after a stressful task; specifically, subjects experienced a greater reduction in anxiety from viewing a humorous video after a stressful task than a non-humorous video. There were, however, gender differences: humor benefited women the most when they had high levels of stress and men benefited the most when they had low levels of stress. How, then, does inherent sense of humor and subjection to humorous stimuli affect men and women differently?