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Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid

Posted by kdawson on from the irreproducible-results dept.

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."

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  1. Less well? by ProfM · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests ...

    In other news, posters who don't spend even a few minutes re-reading their posts tend to have POORER grammar.

  2. Re:There got to be an App for that... by mister_playboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    A BMW car is a "Bimmer" and a BMW motorcycle is a "Beemer".

    Now you know.

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  3. Re:Again - people were paid to study this? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wish! I'm more than twice that! I posted anonymously on slashdot for years until it started getting retarded, so I "had" to create an account, so I could persist the options to make it suck less.

    Now get off my concrete porch!

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  4. "Men" by superdana · · Score: 0, Troll

    I object to the suggestion that only men (and all men, at that) are attracted to women.

    1. Re:"Men" by superdana · · Score: 0, Troll

      Of course I read the summary. Don't be stupid. The article is not about men. It is about men who are attracted to women. There is an underlying heterosexual assumption.

  5. Re:Again - people were paid to study this? by RatBastard · · Score: 0, Troll

    *sigh* Humor is lost on the touchy. Should I have put smilies all over it?

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