Pretty Women Make Men Stupid

[slaog]

Well most men are AFC's...

Pretty Women Make Men Stupid

Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.

By Pat Hagan / Source: The Telegraph

http://www.mindpowernews.com/PrettyWomen.htm

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.

Each one performed a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say, as fast as possible, if each one was the same as the one before last.

The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test.

The results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score.

But when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman.

In a report on their findings the researchers said: 'We conclude men's cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman.'

Psychologist Dr George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society, said the findings reflect the fact that men are programmed to think about ways to pass on their genes.

'When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call 'reproductively focused'.

'But a woman also looks for signs of other attributes, such as wealth, youth and kindness. Just the look of the man would be unlikely to have the same effect.'

 

[KarmaSutra]

No woman has the power to change anything in a man he isn't willing to fork over.

It's pure insecurity in both genders to change for any person.

 

[piranha45]

self-control/discipline

 

[Jitterbug]

Women, however, were not affected by chatting to a handsome man.

Not from what I've observed. They may not be drooling like the average guy does when talking to a hot chick, but they are visibly affected.

 

[Hooligan Harry]

No woman has the power to change anything in a man he isn't willing to fork over.

It's pure insecurity in both genders to change for any person.

What change? They are talking about an immediate response to attraction and the reactions of men when they see a very attractive woman? No one is suggesting they are willing to take her last name here.

Are you guys telling me that sometimes a women does not knock your socks off? There are still times when eye contact from a belter makes my stomach churn and I have been around the block more than most my age. I love that feeling and its one of the most instinctual things you can feel.

Putting her on a pedestal because of her looks and kissing ass is weakness. Getting horny to the point of not being able to think straight is not that big a deal. There is nothing masculine about acting like a robot. Being able to embrace your sexuality is what it is to be a man FFS.

 

[jophil28]

Take your SAT's sitting next to a fugly.

Seriously, this is another dimwitted, money wasting "study" to tell me what I knew in HS. Who the bleep cares, except for those social scientists who can't get laid anyway ..(It always grates on me to type the words "scientist" and "social" in the same sentence.)