distracting horny frat boys -- with SCIENCE!
Who knew? You can trick younger men into accepting disadvantageous negotiating positions by flashing a headlight. (Item for the DUH! category.) You don't even need to go that far -- apparently the Victoria's Secret catalog is enough.
Yeah, I linked to it.
However, the study by those enterprising Dutchmen had some interesting data points:
The men's testosterone levels were also tested - by comparing the length of the men's index finger compared to their ring finger.
The results for yours truly are not good. My ring finger is slightly longer than my index, which would explain quite a few things.
The researchers are conducting similar tests with women. But so far, they have failed to find a visual stimulus which will affect their behaviour.
Silly scientists - Trix are for kids! I would also look askance at any study that didn't take into account, at the outset, that women and men experience eroticism in entirely different ways. (Hint: women are less visual, dipshits.)
Note to M: this is how you win at Lord of the Rings, since you can't seem to do it through normal means. I'm just saying.
(Still, however, my favorite SCIENCE! story of all time is this one, which achieves the triple whammy of monkeys, Shakespeare, and defecation, as in this snippet:
"The monkeys aren't reducible to a random process. They get bored and they shit on the keyboard rather than type."
I hear you, simian brothers. I hear you.)