Researchers in The Netherlands ran two studies that measured men and women’s cognitive abilities after interacting with each other. In both studies, men performed worse than women – especially if they were attracted to the person woman they were talking to.
The researchers have a couple theories:
1. Men are spending too much brain-power trying to look cool and not enough is left to say or do smart things.
2. Men may be taking on traditional sex roles and try harder to live up to those expectations of being manly and cool and attractive.
3. It might just take more brain-power to control yourself around people of the opposite sex. Researchers think we just have more experience being around the same sex that when we meet people of the opposite sex, it throws us for a loop.
I guess this falls into the category of science verifying the obvious. I mean, how many times have we tried to introduce ourselves to an attractive woman only end up posting about the disaster on Fuck My Life?
But this has interesting implications for learning and builds a case for having same sex schools. Check out the rest of the article here.
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