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Ogling by Men Subtracts from Women's Math Scores

By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer

posted: 27 January 2011 09:45 am ET

Getting the once-over from a man causes women to score lower on a math test, a new study finds.

Despite this drop in performance, women were more motivated to interact with men who ogled them, perhaps because they were trying to boost their sense of belonging, psychologists report in the February issue of the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly.

"It creates this vicious cycle for women in which they're underperforming in math or work domains, but they're continuing to want to interact with the person who is making them underperform in the first place," study researcher Sarah Gervais, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, told LiveScience.

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[Kepler]

"After the assistants had undergone close to 30 hours of gaze-training apiece, the researchers asked 67 women and 83 men, all college students, to come to the lab....

"The non-objectified women scored an average of 6 out of 12 questions correct, while objectified women scored an average of just under 5."
http://www.livescience.com/culture/ogling-lowers-women-math-scores-110127.html

How relevant is this study to what happens in the real world? Most men do not receive 30 hours of instruction in how to look at a woman to make her feel like a sex object.

[caniff]

I don't recall hot chicks gravitating towards math. Maybe it's a chicken and egg conundrum.

[nero]

So being attractive and intelligent are mutally exclusive in your world?
Another great post on Dave's..

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[rollo]

Are there any studies that show whether men's scores in a subject go down after interacting with attractive women. Seems that interaction between sexes changes thinking. Really radical stuff.

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