Posted on 02/15/2007 6:34:03 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
When a man fails to help out around the house, his poor performance might be related to a subconscious tendency to resist doing anything his wife wants, a new study suggests.
Men and women are sure to argue about this one. In fact, the man and woman who led the study disagree on the meaning of the results.
Psychologists have long known about "reactance," the tendency to do the exact opposite of what's requested by a loved one or boss.
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The new study aimed to find out whether the phenomenon might occur at a subconscious level.
Participants were asked to name a significant person they perceived as controlling their lives, and another who just wanted them to have fun.
Then they were asked to discern words from jumbled letters on a computer screen while the names of the people they had mentioned were flashed subliminally. The names were flashed too quickly to be registered consciously.
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Huh?......did you say something?.............okay.....later.......
Of course, I work in a family business with my mom and my wife. I don't get much done. Thank God for FR.
my ex used to tell me I ignored her..or somethin like that..I wasn't really listenin..
Not true. I never ignore my wife. Well, not unless she mentions something about a headache.
I have one, too. I just flip the little switch...........
Or maybe it's a "girl job" and she shouldn't be asking in the first place?
This "help out around the house" stuff is frequently a code phrase for passive-aggressive manipulative female behavior that has nothing to do with keeping the house clean and everything to do with her reassuring herself that she is still in control of the relationship.
But any scientist who came to that conclusion would have all 82 members of NOW camped outside his office door with pitchforks and torches. ;)
My wife says I always ignore her, at least I think that's what she says.
I don't why men get this "slob" rap.
My buddies and I tend to be more organized and cleaner than the ladies we're with.
Maybe we don't have the right ladies? Perhaps.
I knew it wasn't my fault.
Why else would it take so much effort to listen? It's unnatural.
Yep it's true - But its a survival trait we have inside us Ever since EVE first asked ADAM, "Does this fig leaf make me look fat?"
I don't why men get this "slob" rap.
My buddies and I tend to be more organized and cleaner than the ladies we're with.
Maybe we don't have the right ladies? Perhaps.
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Are you great dressers too? Do you guys have a lot of personal grooming products? You don't have yearly camping trips do you? ;)
My preacher was saying the other day that women use up to 4 times as many words in a day to communicate. The women laughed when I mentioned it was because we had to remind them 2 or 3 times about everything. The men didn't think that was funny though.
This thread is about to get interesting. (I don't disagree with you, but I'm gonna sit back and watch.)
"she shouldn't be asking in the first place?"
"Shouldn't"? That's an interesting take, that she has no right to open her mouth at all.
That being said, my husband and I avoid that issue completely. We outsource, and the maid service solves the problem of "girl jobs" for us.
"My buddies and I tend to be more organized and cleaner than the ladies we're with. "
According to a study published recently mens offices really are cleaner than womens. So its not just the ladies you are hanging around with.
Like I tell my daughters-in-law......"it's a man thing"
Wow. Sounds like they used SCIENCE to prove this, with people in white lab coats even.
I'm sure this will be told over and over to inattentive husbands:
"You hear about that new study, where they proved that men ignore their wives......Well...did you?"
"Yeah, yeah, I mailed it this morning, what else is on?"
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