Science recently confirmed what men have known for centuries: talking to a pretty woman makes men temporarily dumber. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, men who spend even a short time talking to a woman they find attractive temporarily lose a little of their cognitive function, probably because the man’s brain is consumed with trying to impress the woman.
The study, conducted by psychologists at Radboud University in the Netherlands, took a group of 40 heterosexual males and gave them a standard memory test. The males then spent seven minutes speaking with males or females before being tested...
