Women Make Men Stupid
Here’s a short one that I have always known applied to me. Interacting with women can make some men stupid. An article in Psychology Today starts with a quote from Rita Rudner, “Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: A woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”
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.