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Science: Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid
Slashdot ^ | 9/3/9 | kdawson

Posted on 09/04/2009 10:48:52 AM PDT by Clint Williams

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"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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1 posted on 09/04/2009 10:48:52 AM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: Clint Williams

No Duh!


2 posted on 09/04/2009 10:50:15 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: Clint Williams

and this is news? It is a simple blood flow distribution process.


3 posted on 09/04/2009 10:50:41 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Clint Williams
Science: Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid

Define temporary?

4 posted on 09/04/2009 10:51:13 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Clint Williams

And here I’ve been thinking they were stupid before.


5 posted on 09/04/2009 10:51:29 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rebellion is not brewing. Frog is brewing.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

30-40 years


6 posted on 09/04/2009 10:51:46 AM PDT by The Klingon
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Was money spent on this study?


7 posted on 09/04/2009 10:51:48 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Right, and the other head has far fewer neurons devoted to intellectual cognition.


8 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:09 AM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: Clint Williams

Fastest way to a man’s wallet is through his zipper.


9 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:25 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: Clint Williams

Chrissy Matthews explained.


10 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:35 AM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: numberonepal

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11 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:39 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (May God save the American Republic.)
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To: Clint Williams

Peroxide also reduces a persons IQ.


12 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:53 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: Clint Williams

until you marry them, in which case the effect becomes permanent..


13 posted on 09/04/2009 10:52:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Clint Williams
Dang, how much $$$ was this study?

I would have done it for half the cost, and had it completed in 2 minutes.

14 posted on 09/04/2009 10:53:02 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Maverick68
Was money spent on this study?

One suspects that they hired an attractive woman to make the presentation asking for the cash....

That said, it's a very interesting result.

15 posted on 09/04/2009 10:53:10 AM PDT by r9etb
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this is news?

Not just news, but science. And not just science -- it's rocket science!

16 posted on 09/04/2009 10:53:14 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rebellion is not brewing. Frog is brewing.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

LOL!! No wonder beautiful women who are also smart have such a hard time finding mates. They believe a temporary phenomenon instead of checking his baseline IQ.


17 posted on 09/04/2009 10:53:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("A cultural problem cannot be solved with a political solution." -- Selwyn Duke)
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To: Clint Williams

“...perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function...”

But perform better, I imagine, in tests designed to measure other functions.

Makes sense to me, and it bothers me not.


18 posted on 09/04/2009 10:53:59 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Define temporary?


Long enough to give them them house?


19 posted on 09/04/2009 10:54:03 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Clint Williams

20 posted on 09/04/2009 10:54:15 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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