Love is bad for men

A group of American experts stated that romantic feelings affect women and men differently. It is generally accepted that if a woman behaves stupidly, it means she is in love, but the opposite was proven at Syracuse University - stupid behavior is typical for men, while women, on the contrary, become more reasonable. According to experts, hormones are the reason for such different behavior.

An experiment, the results of which became known only recently, helped scientists to make such conclusions. Scientists recruited 30 people aged 18 to 29 (both men and women) to participate. All volunteers felt love and affection for their significant others. The participants were tasked with performing special exercises, including mathematical ones, and all tasks had to be completed within a certain time.

Women showed the best results – 89% of the time they answered the math problems correctly, while only 15% of men were able to answer the questions correctly.

Scientists have concluded that when a woman falls in love with a man, her body releases a high dose of hormones – oxytocin, dopamine, vasopressin, adrenaline, which improve her mental abilities.

For men, the situation is completely different - the male body cannot produce hormones in such quantities, so romantic feelings either do not affect the mental abilities of the stronger sex at all, or reduce them, making men more inhibited.

By the way, history knows several cases that confirm that men in love are capable of stupid actions. For example, the British musician Neil Andrew Megson changed his first and last name after marrying his beloved, in addition, the spouses decided to become similar to each other, for which they underwent a series of plastic surgeries. The musician in love also made his breasts to look as much like his beloved as possible. The couple spent 200 thousand dollars on the surgeries, which shocked the public.

The end of the story is rather sad - multiple plastic surgeries provoked a cancerous tumor in the musician's beloved, which became the cause of her death, but after her death, Megson continues to stubbornly call himself "we".

Another story happened to the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani, who fell in love with a French actress who arrived in his city on tour. Incidentally, the story of the artist and the actress formed the basis of the famous song "A Million Scarlet Roses" - Niko painted portraits of his beloved, kissed the ground on which his chosen one walked, but the girl never reciprocated his feelings. In despair, Pirosmani bought several carts with a variety of flowers - peonies, lilies, roses, lilacs - which strewed the entire street in front of the hotel where the actress was staying. The girl honored the unfortunate lover with only a kiss and disappeared from his life forever. Niko Pirosmani died in complete poverty, 9 years after their last meeting.

Extraordinary actions are not only typical of creative people - the crowned king of Great Britain Edward VIII held his post for only a year, then abdicated the throne for love. His chosen one was the American Wallis Simpson, who had already been married twice, and who, by the way, was not considered a beauty at all. Because of Edward's actions, his close relatives refused to maintain any relations with him, but this did not stop him from marrying his beloved. According to the former king, it is impossible to fulfill the duties of governing the country if the beloved woman is not nearby.

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