Why does that boy of yours act stupid around beautiful women?

Why does that boy of yours act stupid around beautiful women?

I know this is the silly season and people’s behaviour changes to suit the season, but have you ever noticed how men change around reproductive aged women? Doing research on my new manuscript (Son’s) has heighten my awareness of this phenomenon. Working in a place where there are a lot of young people around gives me plenty of opportunity to view this on an almost daily basis.

It is a scientific fact that men change when women are present, as women do when men are around. Men are programmed to change. Their language will change, their chemistry changes and their very manner is different. Women of reproductive age incite a change in men that is not otherwise present. Experiments have concluded that men’s testosterone levels rise and they will take risks they would not take if the women was not there. This is all part of the behaviour meant to impress the female and to gain entry into their existence.

Men even lose some of their reasoning and cognitive ability when they are around a women they are trying to impress. Together with the riskier behaviour common to males, this creates all sorts of problems. Mix this with a group situation in which men are competing and it can become quite lethal

^{This has all kinds of implications for safety, education, management, social norms and daily life.}

 

<sup>If you want to find out more see the pages below or watch the video from the catalyst website.


John Condliffe
28.12.13</sup>

 

Richard Ronley, William von Hippell. 2010. Sociaol Psychological&personality Science. [ONLINE] Available at: http://spp.sagepub.com/content/1/1/57.abstract. [Accessed 22 December 13]

Scott Kaufman. 2009. Psychology Today. (Online) Available at: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200905/interacting-women-makes-men-stupid. (Accessed 28 December 13)

Jonica Newby. 2010. Catalyst. Skating on the Edge: Why are young men such reckless risk-takers? (29/07/2010) Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2967720.htm. (Accessed 28  December 13)