Men are more reckless when near beautiful women

The presence of captivating women makes men 's willingness to take risks significantly increased.

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Livescience said, Richard Ronay and William von Hippel - two scientists from the University of Queensland in Australia - study the impact of beautiful women on men's risky behavior by following 96 male skateboarders The average age is 22. Experts require groups of volunteers to make easy and difficult moves on a skateboard.

First the boys did the movements in front of a male. They then repeated the experiment with the presence of a young girl, with attractive appearance and beautiful face. The charm of the girl is judged by 20 young men who are not involved in skateboarding.

The team measured testosterone levels - male sexual hormones - in the volunteers' bodies before and after each exercise. Testosterone creates interest in women and sexual inspiration in men. This hormone is also related to risky and competitive behavior. The greater the concentration of testosterone in the body, the more "male" the man becomes.

When skaters perform difficult moves, they will make a decision in a few tens of seconds about whether to cancel the action or not. In order to make a decision, they must assess the possibility of success from the moment the body is hovering in the air and anticipating the consequences will suffer - such as bruising, broken hands - if the movement fails. It is a time that scientists want to learn, because it also occurs when men control vehicles or use force against each other. Many studies show that men in industrialized countries are at higher risk of premature death because they are more adventurous when grouping.

As expected of the research team, skaters perform more difficult movements when performing in front of the girl, even if they know the risk of falling is greater than the ability to touch the ground safely. Testosterone test results show that this hormone increases more when the athlete performs in front of the girl.

'Our experiment provides evidence of a phenomenon that has existed in art, myths and literature for the past several thousand years: Beautiful women make men throw their caution in the wind'. , the two researchers said.