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Subject: [Sndbox] Attractive women found to make men bonkersAttractive women found to make men bonkers
December 12, 2003
BY MARY VALLIS
Science finally has proven what most of us have always known: Men have a hard time thinking rationally when they have beautiful women on their minds.
The study by psychologists at Ontario's McMaster University, reported in the journal Biology Letters, worked like this:
More than 200 students were shown pictures of men and women of varying attractiveness, then offered a chance to win money: If they rolled double digits on dice, they could either accept a check for between $15 and $35 the following day, or wait a week to eight months and get even more money -- $50 to $75.
After viewing pictures of highly attractive women, the male students were more likely to choose the immediate cash rather than wait a day for the extra cash.
But the female students weren't swayed by images of hot guys. They chose the larger reward.
Another recent study documented changes in men's saliva when beautiful women are present. Men don't actually drool more, but their spit becomes super-charged with testosterone, University of Chicago researchers found. They paid 41 heterosexual male students $10 apiece to examine their saliva. They took saliva samples when the students arrived at the laboratory. They were then led to believe the rest of the test was running behind schedule and made small talk with research assistants during the five-minute wait. Fifteen minutes later, scientists took another saliva sample. The testosterone levels in the saliva of men who had spent time with one of five attractive female assistants jumped by 30 percent.
"Results were generally consistent with the possibility of a mating response in human males," the researchers write in the latest issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
National Post
Charles Mims
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