Female Beauty and Male Stupidity
(Or: Love Makes Stupid)
by Vicky Denvise
22 September 2009
We have all heard the expression that love is/makes blind, but according to a new scientific report, it also makes some of us go all blank and even downright stupid. Especially men. And it need not even have come to love yet, it can just be in the presence of beauty.
A recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, claims that interacting with women makes men stupid. The study was performed at the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology at the Radboud University in The Netherlands.
It all started when one of the researchers found himself so blank when trying to impress an attractive woman, that he could not even remember his own address. Apparently this is something many men have experienced, so a study was started to see if there was any scientific proof of this being a norm.
40 heterosexual male students were put through tests, where they had to absorb information and then speak to men and women. The more attracted they were to a woman, the less they could remember. They had no memory difficulties when speaking with other men. When this same test method was tried on a group of women, there were no signs of them suffering this same temporary “memory loss”.
The researchers concluded that men’s cognitive functioning temporarily declines when interacting with an attractive woman. In other words, men become stupid when in the presence of female beauty.
A reason offered for this was that men slip into a biological parring mood where his cognitive abilities are put aside in order for him to be “reproductively focused”.
This, is more commonly known as having a “one track mind”.
So, girls, if the guy in front of you seems lame, he might just be so attracted to you that he is temporarily incapable of anything else. In a way, this can be considered a compliment.
Then again, he might just be lame, plain and simple.
Now we have no real way of telling. Thanks to science, the dating game just got more challenging than it already was.
To read the entire study go to:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJB-4W99W49-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=16698184135f0394ea1575f2f6e4a886#cor1
(Or: Love Makes Stupid)
by Vicky Denvise
22 September 2009
We have all heard the expression that love is/makes blind, but according to a new scientific report, it also makes some of us go all blank and even downright stupid. Especially men. And it need not even have come to love yet, it can just be in the presence of beauty.
A recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, claims that interacting with women makes men stupid. The study was performed at the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology at the Radboud University in The Netherlands.
It all started when one of the researchers found himself so blank when trying to impress an attractive woman, that he could not even remember his own address. Apparently this is something many men have experienced, so a study was started to see if there was any scientific proof of this being a norm.
40 heterosexual male students were put through tests, where they had to absorb information and then speak to men and women. The more attracted they were to a woman, the less they could remember. They had no memory difficulties when speaking with other men. When this same test method was tried on a group of women, there were no signs of them suffering this same temporary “memory loss”.
The researchers concluded that men’s cognitive functioning temporarily declines when interacting with an attractive woman. In other words, men become stupid when in the presence of female beauty.
A reason offered for this was that men slip into a biological parring mood where his cognitive abilities are put aside in order for him to be “reproductively focused”.
This, is more commonly known as having a “one track mind”.
So, girls, if the guy in front of you seems lame, he might just be so attracted to you that he is temporarily incapable of anything else. In a way, this can be considered a compliment.
Then again, he might just be lame, plain and simple.
Now we have no real way of telling. Thanks to science, the dating game just got more challenging than it already was.
To read the entire study go to:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJB-4W99W49-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=16698184135f0394ea1575f2f6e4a886#cor1
Could this be the theme song for most men?
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