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Science: Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid
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| kdawson
Posted on 09/04/2009 10:48:52 AM PDT by Clint Williams
Ponca City, We love you writes
"The Telegraph reports that 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. This leads to speculation 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. 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 recruited 40 male heterosexual students and had each one perform a standard memory test. The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test. The results showed that men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score."
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: beauty; genderwars; males; psychology
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To: Clint Williams
I have always found this to be true. <8oP~~
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:07:29 AM PDT
by
DGHoodini
(Iran Azadi!)
To: Clint Williams
Ahem, rules.
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:07:34 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: AFreeBird
I guess I just got over-excited.
43
posted on
09/04/2009 11:07:57 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(NEGROMANCER!!!! Run for your LIVES!!!)
To: Clint Williams
...Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid...Hmmm...I just thought of something:
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:10:01 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Jump You F**kers!)
To: Clint Williams
Same thing happens around overweight people and foods they love.
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:10:21 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: FReepaholic
To: Londo Molari
Yep. They start thinking with the little head instead of the big one.
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:12:12 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Obamacare will be a crap sandwich. The government will get all your bread and you get the crap.)
To: FReepaholic
To: Clint Williams
Gee, why didn’t I think of that?
To: bigheadfred
bigheadfred posted:
"Teacher: The average male thinks about sex once every 17 seconds." That's probably the average frequency of such thoughts. The average duration of the thought is probably 16.9 seconds, leaving about one-half of one percent of thinking time for such things as eating and personal hygiene. Fortunately, many males are able to multi-task.
To: NMEwithin
UM- Uhhhhhhh...............
I 4git wat I wuz gunna rite.....
What just happened? Sorry I gotta go.
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:13:40 AM PDT
by
marine86297
(I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
To: Clint Williams
Heard about this story. It’s true!
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:14:02 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(People who do things are people that get things done.)
To: FReepaholic
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:14:08 AM PDT
by
NoDRodee
(U>S>M>C)
To: Clint Williams
Partly crap. Non-stupid men might become temporarily distracted by a beautiful woman but not for any appreciable length of time. The ones who do become drooling stupid are stupid to begin with because they are actually stupid enough to believe they have a shot at her.
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:15:33 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:16:04 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(People who do things are people that get things done.)
To: NMEwithin
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:16:43 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: FReepaholic
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:17:43 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: NMEwithin
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:18:29 AM PDT
by
wvguy
(Montani semper liberi)
To: FReepaholic
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:19:58 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Socialism: The sin of envy, masquerading as a political movement.)
To: William Tell
And with all these shortcomings, men have been able to conceive, create and produce virtually one hundred percent of everything we enjoy in the modern world. What does that say for the male brain!!?
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posted on
09/04/2009 11:20:42 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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