Posted on 09/03/2009 11:36:48 AM PDT by Steelfish
Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.
Pat Hagan 03 Sep 2009
The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.
Researchers who carried out the study, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, think the reason may be that men use up so much of their brain function or 'cognitive resources' trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks.
The findings have implications for the performance of men who flirt with women in the workplace, or even exam results in mixed-sex schools.
Women, however, were not affected by chatting to a handsome man.
This may be simply because men are programmed by evolution to think more about mating opportunities.
Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived.
Researchers said it was as if he was so keen to make an impression he 'temporarily absorbed most of his cognitive resources.'
To see if other men were affected in the same way, they recruited 40 male heterosexual students.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
She’s cruisin’ for a butt-bite.
that was “latter” ..duh
This is news?
I don’t know which episode:
LADY: Sir, My eyes are up here!
HOMER SIMPSON: I’ve made my choice.
Classic photo. American Girl in Italy, Florence, Italy, 1951. Just discovered today that it was photographed by a single woman Ruth Orkin. She looks uncomfortable with the attention.
I like to think about my own Family history. The injuns are at the door and mama is reloading and seven months pregnant, and she says to herself, “I hope that this is the Man I though I married”.
No, this is what's hot....
*snicker*
Gotta love the look on the faces of the guys behind her. You can see their IQ dropping.
I have that same...undergarment. But it fits her much better. ;-)
SO agreed, metmom. I love a man that knows his way around a chainsaw.
Problem is the older I get the less ugly women I see.....except for post #3 of course.
I think she’s an astronaut. That dress is from the spring-summer NASA line.
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”-- Robin Williams
Speechless!
He should have taken some tips from Otter.
This explains why men marry hot bimbos that give BJ’s even if they know it is just for their money.
I don’t know who did the research but I know several women who come unglued around (what they consider, I’m not into men)a good looking guy and get all flustered and act silly. These people act as if women aren’t affected at all by good looking men. Maybe they tested lesbians?
Stan and Jan Berenstein cited this as the law of male self-confidence: the degree of the collapse of male self-confidence is in direct proportion to the attractiveness of the female.
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