Do Men Really Lose Their Minds Speaking to Pretty Women?

What They Say: A new research has concluded that men who spend time with pretty women perform poorly on tests designed to measure brain function as opposed to those who talk with women they are not attracted to. 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 school.

In their study, researchers recruit 40 male students. Each one performed a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say as fast as possible if each one was the same as the one before last. The results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress women. The more fancied them… well, the worse their score!

Women, however, are not affected by talking to a handsome man. This may be simply because men are programmed by evolution to think more about mating opportunities, the study said.

As Psychologist Dr. George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society, said the findings reflect that men are programmed to think about the ways to pass on their genes.

Your Say: Though many people started to say now – that, this is an ‘established fact’ that pretty women make men nervous or dumb but various people have reacted in different ways. Some people said this was just waste of time and resources, others looked at it like hilarious joke. But what’s the truth behind it? Differences of opinions once again bring us back to the same old question. Is it true that men lose their mind talking to attractive women? Or this is just a myth? Or even this only varies person to person? By doing their research over forty odd men, can researchers establish a sensitive fact like this?

Well, this is where I’m leaving my readers to decide. If you have read this article then don’t forget to give your opinion regardless your gender.  

Let’s see what you think about this issue.