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December 12, 2003

Of Breasts and Brains

One seems to affect the other:

McMaster University researchers proved men can't think straight after just looking at photos of attractive women. Psychology professors Margo Wilson and Martin Daly showed male students pictures of both attractive and non-attractive women. Then they had the men roll dice.

When they threw double digits, the men would get a choice: take between $15 and $35 the next day, or take $50 to $75 after a wait of one week to eight months. The men who had just viewed pictures of "hot" women were far more likely to take the lesser sum right away, says the study, printed recently in Biology Letters.

Clearly, such science has the vast potential to be abused. How long will it be before employment offer letters and even federal tax forms come complete with centerfolds?