"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."
No comments:
Post a Comment