Men become stupid when around women
In the presence of a woman, men sometimes don't know what to say. They just can't think straight when women are around, the New York Daily News reported. But the same didn't hold true for women, according to the study from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, first published online last November.
During one, the students were asked to complete a 'lip reading task' in which they said words out loud in front of a webcam. They were told someone would see them on the other end of the webcam, and try to read their lips.
Men who were told a woman would be watching them performed worse on subsequent tests of cognitive ability, even when there was no actual face-to-face contact with a woman. Women showed no change.Researchers suggest the findings could be attributed to 'evolutionary pressures' that have shaped men to be more likely to sexualize otherwise neutral situations, but say further study is necessary.Agency