Posted on 09/08/2006 12:50:36 PM PDT by presidio9
Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday.
New research has shown that men bond together and cooperate well in the face of adversity to protect their interests more than women, which could explain why war is almost exclusively a male business, according to Professor Mark van Vugt of the University of Kent in southern England.
"Men respond more strongly to outward threats, we've labeled that the 'man warrior effect'," he told the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.
"Men are more likely to support a country going to war. Men are more likely sign up for the military and men are more likely to lead groups in more autocratic, militaristic ways than women," he added.
Van Vugt said the finding is consistent with results from different behavioral science disciplines.
In experiments with 300 university men and women students, Van Vugt and his team gave the volunteers small sums of money which they could either keep or invest in a common fund that would be doubled and equally divided. None of the students knew what the others were doing.
Both sexes cooperated in investing in the fund. But when the groups were told they were competing against other universities, the males were more eager to invest rather than keep their money while the number of women contributing remained the same.
"We all know males are more aggressive than females," Van Vugt said, adding that co-operation is needed to establish institutions and governments and to wage wars.
"Male co-operation is a double-edged sword," he added.
Well, duh!
Where's my grant money?
Another shackle on the arms of women enslaved by our Male dominated culture. He should be kicked out of research and academia for such a biased, sexist and divisive study!
Bring back Lawrence Summers. He was falsely dismissed.
Not detailed enough. You need something more in lines of this.
A Proposal: To determine the precise causality of male fluid excretions while in non-prone pre-post 90degree solar daylight inclinations after engaging in mental recovery and immunlogical maintenance operations.
(why do men piss upright in the morning after sleeping)
I think these "scientists" are also involved in some global warming studies. You pay and they will tell you want you want to hear. What a pantload.
Time Magazine: Men and women are different
LOL!
I see that you have some experience in this arena...
I always forget that people in academe, law, and guv'mint get paid in direct proportion to tonnage of paper required to make their stinkin' point.
Could someone forward this to NOW? They seem to be seriously unable to see the bleeding obvious...
My wife says I'm a warmonger. Maybe she's right.
I think it all goes back to the fact that men could carry the bigger clubs.
That could be interpreted in a couple of ways. By "upright" are you talking about only certain parts of the anatomy, or the entire body, or both?
I think it all goes back to the fact that men could carry the bigger clubs
some men could...others?.....
A picture is worth a thousand words.....LOL
As a rule of thumb, the cubic of government paper required is 1.3 times the cubic volume of the item being aquired. Thus, 13 tons of paper = one ten ton truck.
Which is just one of the reasons I still say women should not vote.
And similarly, never bring a knife to a gun fight and never bring a woman to a war.
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