Men lose their minds over pretty women

I think most men in the audience can think of a situation in his life where he degenerated into a pile of mushy brain goo in the presence of a stunner, It’s happened to me.

So here is a study: “Study: Men Losing Their Minds Over Women”. Didn’t really need to be done but it’s always useful to have some kind of scientific backing when dealing with people who have problems with reality.

The study measured brain function in 40 male heterosexual student volunteers, who were asked to perform a standard memory test in which they were shown a stream of letters and had to quickly say if each was the same as the previous letter. They then spent several minutes talking to either a man or an attractive woman and then repeated the test.

The researchers found that even a few minutes with the attractive woman was enough to make the students slower and less accurate on the test. The more attracted they were, the worse their results.

They also studied the effects on women students of being in the company of handsome men, and found the test scores were unaffected.

The idea for the study came from one of the scientists, who was so impressed by a beautiful woman he met that when she asked where he lived, he had forgotten his own address! He had temporarily lost his mind.

Posted under: Gender Issues, Science
Posted on: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:01 AM
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  1. Posted by: Captain on 9/16/2009 9:33 PM
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    There must be something wrong with me. I've never had that problem.
  2. Posted by: AlekNovy on 10/21/2009 9:32 PM
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    I do think this is actually social-programming, not biological... Men are taught to idealize women, its the natural state for men.
  3. Posted by: Monad on 10/29/2009 12:54 PM
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    I would say that it is biological and very primal, however repeated exposure to attractive women by interacting with them rather than avoiding them if one has this problem around women would be the cure.
  4. Posted by: Jeff on 11/3/2009 3:32 AM
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    Nature vs. nurture, eh? I'd say it's both primal biology AND social conditioning, and agree that habituation through repeated exposure and interaction would lessen the effect. I would go further to say that little girls become aware of the effect they have on little boys at a very early age, and hesitate not the blink of an eye to take advantage. Matt Groening even did a 'Simpsons' episode on the phenomenon, featuring (of course) the minister's daughter, who says right to Bart's face, "I can make boys do anything I want." Poor Bart Simpson, he never even saw what hit him.

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