Researcher Johan Karremans and his colleagues at Radboud University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands in two studies concuded, amongst other things, that men might be prone to engage in effortful and cognitively demanding attempts to impress an opposite sex partner and suffer a decline in cognitive functioning. The researchers went further in suggesting that in coeducational schools boys’ cognitive performance could be adversely affected when “part of their valuable cognitive resources may be spent on impressing their female class members.”

I knew there was a reason I did so badly in high school after such a brilliant career in grade school.