‘Move not unless you see an advantage.’ –Sun Tzu
Is male libido the ultimate cause of war?
Across four experiments Lei Chang and his team showed that pictures of attractive women or women’s legs had a raft of war-relevant effects on heterosexual male participants, including: biasing their judgments to be more bellicose towards hostile countries; speeding their ability to locate an armed soldier on a computer screen; and speeding their ability to recognise and locate war-related words on a computer screen.
Equivalent effects after looking at pictures of attractive men were not found for female participants.
