The Singular Mind

Haha, ladies, it's science

A new study has shown that nagging actually has pretty much the exact opposite effect than intended. People tend to ignore or respond in opposite ways to instructions that seem like they could be a threat to their autonomy. So even using a signifigant person's name and telling the people that they wanted them to work hard made people do worse in simple trials, as opposed to saying that person wanted them to have fun.

At the end of the article, it has 2 quotes from a married couple who thought of the study:

"Not surprisingly perhaps, Chartrand and Fitzsimons, as wife and husband, also take home some slightly differing messages from their experiments.

Chartrand believes her husband 'should now be better equipped to suppress his reactant tendencies.' Fitzsimons, however, believes the results 'suggest that reactance to significant others is so automatic that I can't possibly be expected to control it if I don't even know it's happening.'"

I say women, just quit nagging.

Labels: Current Events, Humor, Things of Interest

posted by Jeremy @ 10:27 PM