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作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-30 13:04 标题: Chinese researchers: The Sight of a Pretty Woman Can Make Men Crave War

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Beauty and the Beasts: The Sight of a Pretty Woman Can Make Men Crave War

By Rebecca Coffey June 25, 2011 | 13

Show a man a picture of an attractive woman, and he might play riskier blackjack. With a real-life pretty woman watching, he might cross traffic against a red light. Such exhibitions of agility and bravado are the behavioral equivalent in humans of physical attributes such as antlers and horns in animals. “Mate with me,” they signal to women. “I can brave danger to defend you and the children.”
So says Lei Chang, a psychologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With colleagues there and at China’s Hebei University, Chang wondered whether military weaponry and paraphernalia hold the same seductive value as antlers, horns and risky behavior, allowing warriors to best nonwarriors in the competition for mates. The researchers also speculated about war itself. When raping and pillaging, armies resemble chimps on intergroup sex raids. Might warfare actually be driven by the opportunity it offers males to impregnate females, willing and not willing?
To begin to address such questions, Chang showed men pictures of women and tested for statistically significant effects of those pictures on men’s attitudes about war and on their cognitive processes related to war. As he and his colleagues describe in the online March 23 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, they asked the men to rate their agreement with war-supporting statements. Men’s responses demonstrated a positive, significant statistical correlation between seeing photographs of attractive faces and endorsing war-supporting statements. This correlation was not demonstrated for photographs of unattractive women’s faces, and the researchers found no statistically significant effect on women of pictures of either attractive or unattractive men in any measure related to war.
Chang and his colleagues suggest that any warring-mating relation in men is probably an evolutionary holdover from pre–Homo sapiens days, which explains why raping and pillaging are, unfortunately, alive and well.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-30 13:07

We all know it is true. But what does it mean, in terms of male/female behaviours?

作者: 走遍四方 时间: 2011-7-7 09:51

many proofs in

history

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-7-7 12:24

走遍四方发表于 2011-7-7 09:51
many proofs in history

So women are the cause of men's bad behaviours? I know men do crazy things to attract the attention and affection of beautiful women just as animals compete to mate. So what is the solution: cover-up or castration?

作者: 走遍四方 时间: 2011-7-7 12:59

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ask the other side of the sky

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-7-7 13:36

走遍四方发表于 2011-7-7 12:59
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ask the other side of the sky

If we behave just like animals, then evolution theory is right AND there is no other side of the sky. Unless you have another meaning of "the other side of the sky"?

作者: 走遍四方 时间: 2011-7-7 13:54

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Men conquer Women through Conquering the world
Women conquer the world through Conquering Men

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-7-7 14:10

走遍四方发表于 2011-7-7 13:54
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Men conquer Women through Conquering the world

Ah.. spoken like a true sage!

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-7-12 14:19

beautiful woman always make me fall back

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-7-12 14:23

although I like beautiful woman very very much

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-7-12 15:37

搅拌子发表于 2011-7-12 14:23
although I like beautiful woman very very much

and so say all of us.....before fighting each other to win her heart. We are so animal-like

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-7-12 15:45

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exactly

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