Study Finds Female Beauty Is Male Drug
Brain scans show a man's reaction to seeing beautiful women is similar
to an addict's when he get his fix.
The study seems to be proof feminine beauty affects the male brain at
its most basic level.
Pictures of attractive women activated the same reward circuits in the
brains of heterosexual men as food and cocaine.
The study may help prove we are born knowing what is beautiful and what
is not.
Dan Ariely, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
co-author
of the study, said: "This is hard-core circuitry. Beauty is working
similar to a drug."
In a second, related study, men were shown random pictures of women for
several seconds, but could extend or cut the viewing time by pressing
keys on a keypad.
Attractive women were viewed an average of 8.7 seconds while others
were
viewed for 5.2 seconds.
The men worked frantically to keep the beautiful women on the screen,
each pressing the keyboard an average of more than 6,700 times in 40
minutes.
A researcher said: ''These guys look like rodents bar-pressing for
cocaine."
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General
Hospital
have published their work in the journal "Neuron".
Brain scans show a man's reaction to seeing beautiful women is similar
to an addict's when he get his fix.
The study seems to be proof feminine beauty affects the male brain at
its most basic level.
Pictures of attractive women activated the same reward circuits in the
brains of heterosexual men as food and cocaine.
The study may help prove we are born knowing what is beautiful and what
is not.
Dan Ariely, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
co-author
of the study, said: "This is hard-core circuitry. Beauty is working
similar to a drug."
In a second, related study, men were shown random pictures of women for
several seconds, but could extend or cut the viewing time by pressing
keys on a keypad.
Attractive women were viewed an average of 8.7 seconds while others
were
viewed for 5.2 seconds.
The men worked frantically to keep the beautiful women on the screen,
each pressing the keyboard an average of more than 6,700 times in 40
minutes.
A researcher said: ''These guys look like rodents bar-pressing for
cocaine."
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General
Hospital
have published their work in the journal "Neuron".
amy mcclelland on December 13, 2005 at 09:02
Get a grip girl, jeepers it's bloody obvious isn't it, gorgeous people
get on in life, while the mingers are cast aside... I guess you're a
minger, that's why you're studying the subject. Looking for reasons
why nobody wants you are you???
get on in life, while the mingers are cast aside... I guess you're a
minger, that's why you're studying the subject. Looking for reasons
why nobody wants you are you???
Rob sickaphsychos on February 18, 2007 at 03:04
I'm guessing if they did a study of females, it would be showing them
pictures of men's wallets. Women are addcited to men's success and
money.
pictures of men's wallets. Women are addcited to men's success and
money.
Michael on March 30, 2007 at 03:41
lol
Chaz on April 12, 2007 at 06:52
michael my mate socrates,plato,einstein they dint av shit on u
big dean on May 06, 2007 at 06:59
haha, you all must be gay, i'm assuming?
the bigger dean on May 08, 2007 at 01:47
Get a grip, Rob- Amy just might be one of these ladies that's blessed
with beauty AND a brain. It has been known to happen...
with beauty AND a brain. It has been known to happen...
juniper on June 23, 2007 at 08:31

dissertation on Facial Attractiveness bias in sentencing...does
anybody know the exact volume and page of this article in the journal?