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[Dave]

incredibly important research

'Sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects, according to a new study of male behavior.'

Really? Wow. Maybe I should write some grant applications so I too can rake in scads of cash for explicating the obvious.

Oh wait...there's more:

'Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lights up. Men were also more likely to associate images of sexualized women with first-person action verbs such as "I push, I grasp, I handle," said lead researcher Susan Fiske, a psychologist at Princeton University.'

'And in a "shocking" finding, Fiske noted, some of the men studied showed no activity in the part of the brain that usually responds when a person ponders another's intentions. This means that these men see women "as sexually inviting, but they are not thinking about their minds," Fiske said. "The lack of activation in this social cognition area is really odd, because it hardly ever happens." '

'Fiske and colleagues asked 21 heterosexual male volunteers to first take a test that scores people based on different types of sexist attitudes. The subjects were then shown pictures of both skimpily dressed and fully clothed men and women. Most of the men best remembered headless photographs of women in bikinis, even if they'd only seen the image for two-tenths of a second'

'Evolutionary psychologists have proposed that women tend to look for mates who have wealth and power, so some of Fiske's colleagues have suggested running a similar test where women are shown pictures of men next to expensive cars or other affluent symbols. But Fiske doesn't think such an experiment would work the same way, because women usually react to men they desire by "interpreting their minds, thinking about what they're interested in, and then trying to please them," she said. '

Still no cure for cancer...or AIDS...or the economy. Get cracking, Science.

[Chad]

Men see women as objects eh? .... I got nothin.

[Deb]

Thank god we've cured cancer and other debilitating diseases before something like this was done, otherwise I'd be pissed off...