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From Ars Technica, Men “stop thinking rationally” in the presence of “beautiful” women, hotornot.com:

Discounting the future… we all do it. If you setup an analytical tension between the immediate fulfillment of wishes/wants/desires and the future benefits one may gain by not fulfilling them, one can see that humans (and indeed most animals) routinely chose the present over the future. Such analytical approaches then seek to evaluate whether or not the choice in favor of the present is rational or irrational. Using pictures from hotornot.com, researchers tested men and women’s reactions to accepting prize money in the following scheme: they could accept a check for US$15-35 tomorrow, or they could wait and get paid US$50-75 “at a variable point in the future.” The kicker is that the students were shown pictures of attractive members of the opposite sex before being made to make a decision.

Men consistently chose irrationally when shown a “hot” women beforehand. Women did not. I probably shouldn’t link this. Warning: not particularly PC, my opinions don’t closely parallel it. But I immediately noted this study goes a little ways as proof for the infamous “Ladder Theory”’s supposition that Men have a hard time with ‘hot” female “friends”. Women don’t, with male friends that is.

Also, Serial Dating bad for womens health. Good for men.