Study finds men suffer mental decline when around, or
even just thinking about women. Same doesn't hold true for females,
researchers say Comments
(30) BY RHEANA MURRAY NEW
YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Seen in movies like "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," sometimes men don't
know what to say in the presence of a woman.
Men just can’t think straight when women are around.
Researchers are studying how males can actually experience a mental decline
when interacting with women, Scientific American magazine reported. A study
from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands
Researchers compared the findings to a scene in
Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina,” in which a male character, Levi,
becomes so nervous trying to think of something to tell a woman, Kitty, that he
doesn’t recognize a friend who walks by the pond where they’re standing. Such
temporary lapses in memory or mindfulness are more common “if the woman is
attractive and men report trying to impress her,” according to the study’s
authors. And they happen in real life, too…
Men who were told a woman would be watching them
performed worse on subsequent tests of cognitive ability, even when there was
no actual face-to-face contact with a woman. Women showed no change.
Researchers suggest the findings could be attributed
to “evolutionary pressures” that have shaped men to be more likely to sexualize
otherwise neutral situations, but say further study is necessary. rmurray@nydailynews.com
Creative people more dishonest, Harvard study finds -
Daily Dose 2 Dec 2011 – By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff - But are
creative types more likely to lie, cheat, and steal?
“There’s been a lot of
anecdotal evidence linking creativity with dishonesty, but without much
empirical evidence,” said Francesca Gino, an associate professor of business
administration at Harvard
Business School
“When you’re a creative
person, you can use that creativity to come up with reasons for why unethical
behaviors may be okay,” said Gino. “Crossing ethical boundaries may not be as
problematic.”
Interestingly, all of the
study participants wanted to maintain a positive view of themselves: In
anonymous surveys, nobody admitted being a cheater, and all considered cheating
to be wrong. But when faced with ethical dilemmas where they weighed self-interest
against the desire to maintain their high self-image, the creative participants
were better able to rationalize their dishonest behavior, so they could still
see themselves as honest human beings.
They figure what’s the
harm in cheating, just a little? “One might reason that other people would
cheat under the same circumstances or that a little cheating will not hurt
anyone,” wrote Gino in the paper.
Other research suggests
we all start to self-rationalize more when we’re in a creative mindset -- looking
for ways to lower our tax bill, for example, or coming up with a new idea for
an advertising campaign. “Anyone who’s thinking creatively at [the] moment, may
be more likely to engage in unethical behavior,” Gino told me.
Of course, we shouldn’t
try to avoid being creative, but we may want to be a little more self-aware.
“Knowing that creativity can have this side effect,” Gino said, “should make us
stop and think more carefully when we’re faced with an ethical decision.” Deborah
Kotz can be reached at dkotz@globe.com
Rich People 'More Likely To Lie, Cheat And Break The Law'
28 Feb 2012 – huffington post
People from privileged, wealthy backgrounds are more
likely to be dishonest and unethical than their poorer counterparts, a study
has found. Wealthy more likely to lie, cheat: Study - Indian Express
Washington
They may be the more respectable and upstanding
members of society, but the rich are also more likely to lie, cheat and engage
in other kinds of unethical activities than those in lower classes, claims a
new study. But these findings, published in the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, do not mean that everyone of
high status behaves unethically, nor that everyone in lower society behaves
ethically, scientists cautioned. 'Wealthy class more
likely to lie, cheat' - Times Of India
However, the researchers suggested that the rich's
view of the world may be clouded by self-absorption and greed. As a result,
they have fewer scruples than those who have less money to burn.
The
fallacy of mood affiliation by Tyler Cowen on March 31, 2011
at 8:43 am in Philosophy Permalink Recently I
wrote:
It seems to me that people are first choosing a mood
or attitude, and then finding the disparate views which match to that mood and,
to themselves, justifying those views by the mood. I call this the
“fallacy of mood affiliation”
Let’s
not count the poor from Kafila by Shivam Vij
As someone recently commented on a Kafila post, we
live in a post-fact world where there are no facts. Everyone believes what they
want to. 1:47 PM
We
are all salespersons to different degrees, and use fallacies Why
Politicians are Liars, Darrell Williams author's web site September
19, 2007
These are complex deceitful statements that are used
to sell an idea by misleading claims. This is done by different individuals to
different degrees for different purposes. Some are harmless but some are
dangerous and illegal. There are over 166 different ways in which a person can
use fallacies to
deceive or mislead someone. 5:36 PM
Oh well, it is not so much her questionable sense of humour that bothers me
here; it is not the fact that she is painting a very two-dimensional black and
white picture either. It is that people relate to it: "Oh yes, everything
in my life can be defined so simply. One line, two kinds of people."
Seriously? I don't recognize any sloppy nor any neat people I know in this
essay. Why not stick to the definition? (Oxford
I see nothing about waste or attachment to things
here.
When you want to put people in boxes, the larger your boxes are, the more judgmental and wrong you get. And it doesn't get any funnier... Evergreen Essays at 7:15 PM, March 17, 2012
When you want to put people in boxes, the larger your boxes are, the more judgmental and wrong you get. And it doesn't get any funnier... Evergreen Essays at 7:15 PM, March 17, 2012
