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Male Brains 'Wired for Videogame Obsession'
thinkzinc notes a story indicating that, according to a new study, men have a harder time putting down a controller than women do. Researchers at Stanford did brain imaging work on a group of young test subjects while they played a simple PC game. Besides the 'obvious' conclusion that men were more 'aggressive at gaining territory on the screen', the tests also indicated that male brains showed more activity in the reward and addiction components of the brain. "The lead author, Dr. Allan Reiss, noted that most of the video games that are popular with men are territory and aggression-type games. 'These gender differences in the brain may help explain why males are more attracted to, and more likely to become hooked on video games than females,' he said. Other recent surveys indicate that about 40 percent of Americans regularly play games on a computer or console, but young males are two or three times more likely than females to feel addicted to video games, Reiss said. "
The pictures my brain is wired for interest in leave nothing to question.
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...and in other news, scientists studying grizzly bears in Canada have finally shown that they do, in fact, defecate in the woods.
Female Brain 'Wired for Shopping Obsession'... news at 11.
I prefer to be certain they are pictures of the opposite sex.
We need legislation banning video games. We must protect us from ourselves!
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All that means is that your girlfriend is actually a man.
Wait a second...
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It is if you're doing a study on Anecdotes.
I've always thought it was interesting that many women seem to be fans of Atari's Centipede arcade game, and it was supposedly the first arcade game written by a woman.
I have a theory on why some women would enjoy a game that involves cutting a long snaky thing into pieces before it can get to them, but I'm not going to get into that here
Kent Brockman: The weather service has warned us to brace ourselves for the onslaught of Hurricane Barbara. And if you think naming a destructive storm after a woman is sexist, you obviously have never seen the gals grabbing for items at a clearance sale.
Marge: Hrm... that's true... but he shouldn't say it.