«Women generally show spontaneous negative attitudes toward sexual images,»
write psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues.
Not exact matches
One possibility, as the
scientists write in the online version of the journal
Psychological Science, is that our abstract existential system has no tolerance for the gory details of death; in fact, abstract thoughts of death generate an aversion to bodily fluids, including blood.
«The authors find themselves ironically somewhat caught up in the very
psychological feedback loop that they are
writing about,» said Michael Mann, a climate
scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, in an email.