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Men Lose Their Minds Speaking To Pretty Women
Telegraph(UK) ^ | September 03, 2009

Posted on 09/03/2009 11:36:48 AM PDT by Steelfish

Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.

Pat Hagan 03 Sep 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: babes; beauty; genderwars; males; napl; psychology; radbounduniversity
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To: Steelfish

Not enough blood to keep two heads working properly.


21 posted on 09/03/2009 11:42:21 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: earlJam

Uh,,Huh?


22 posted on 09/03/2009 11:42:34 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: NMEwithin

Well those are two lovely ladies ...


23 posted on 09/03/2009 11:42:45 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: NMEwithin

What? Huh? Wow, uh... what were we talking about again?


24 posted on 09/03/2009 11:43:04 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: NMEwithin

What was the question?


25 posted on 09/03/2009 11:43:07 AM PDT by SZonian (I'm a Canal Zone brat)
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To: Steelfish

But what about the homos?


26 posted on 09/03/2009 11:43:37 AM PDT by tractorman
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To: NavyCanDo

Proof the Eve was a looker. Anything less and Adam would have had he good sense not to take a bite out of that apple.


27 posted on 09/03/2009 11:44:19 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: theFIRMbss

Yes, the muscles are nice but that face: yikes, I will pass on that. Jackie Broyles is my man. I would take Jackie over that muscle head any day./Just Asking - seoul62......


28 posted on 09/03/2009 11:44:33 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: theFIRMbss
Yes, but if a guy takes off his shirt, women don't stay too smart, either.
29 posted on 09/03/2009 11:44:37 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Steelfish

Interesting study. Thanks for posting.


30 posted on 09/03/2009 11:44:45 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: frogjerk

Looking at that made my IQ go up 50 points.

Not worth it, though.


31 posted on 09/03/2009 11:45:31 AM PDT by chesley ("Hate" -- You wouldn't understand; it's a leftist thing)
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To: Steelfish

If I talk to Helen Thomas, does that mean I turn into a genius?


32 posted on 09/03/2009 11:45:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (One man, alone! Betrayed by the country he loves, now its last hope in their final hour of need!)
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To: Steelfish

Man: Why did you make women beautiful?

God: So that you would love them.

Man: Why did you make women so tender?

God: So that you would love them.

Man: Why did you make women so stupid?

God: So that they would love you.


33 posted on 09/03/2009 11:46:02 AM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: Steelfish

captain obvioius alert


34 posted on 09/03/2009 11:46:18 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Steelfish

The mind is not lost. It’s just migrating to another organ.


35 posted on 09/03/2009 11:46:19 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: Hacklehead
So, what kind of conversation could be held with her?


36 posted on 09/03/2009 11:47:00 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: NCC-1701

Not sure...but the guys behind her are sure trying hard to figure it out.


37 posted on 09/03/2009 11:48:25 AM PDT by halo66
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To: frogjerk

Your post made me smarter!


38 posted on 09/03/2009 11:48:59 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: NCC-1701
So, what kind of conversation could be held with her?

"Nice baloons! May I touch them?"

39 posted on 09/03/2009 11:50:00 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: NMEwithin

Hamna,Hamna Hamna......


40 posted on 09/03/2009 11:50:29 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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