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| Porn makes you go blind |
| 2005-08-16 |
| RESEARCHERS have proved what mothers have been telling their sons all along – erotic images can make you go blind. A study by US psychologists found people shown erotic or gory images could not process what they were seeing immediately afterwards. Researchers believe emotion-induced blindness could mean drivers simply do not see another car or pedestrian if they have just witnessed an "emotionally charged" scene. The work, published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, helps shed light on how motorists are affected by the use of sexy billboards. It also found that some people were more prone to be affected by the phenomenon known as emotion-induced blindness. Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Yale University in Connecticut showed hundreds of images to volunteers. Most of them were "neutral" scenes but a few showing violent or sexually provocative scenes were also included. "We observed that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images," researcher David Zald told New Scientist magazine. "We think there is essentially a bottleneck for information processing and if a certain type of stimulus captures attention, it can jam up the bottleneck so subsequent information can't get through." This appeared to happen involuntarily, Mr Zald said. |
| Posted by:Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World |
| #40 OK, that's that.... Now about my palms..... |
| Posted by: Unavimp Greretch8159 2005-08-16 21:29 |
| #39 "Emotionally charged" blindness. What a crock. I went blind the old-fashioned way: I wacked it. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2005-08-16 20:41 |
| #38 How 'bout some Champipple? Champagne and Ripple. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-16 18:58 |
| #37 Seriously, heh, being able to read the dogtags is sooo important. In another, I was able to read the Dick Tracy cartoon the model was reading. I'm a better man for it, too. Wymyns don't understand these things. Bad attitudes. An XX thingy. :-) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 18:55 |
| #36 Yes, unfortunately. My wife was standing right next to me. Thanks. Remind me to send you a bottle of wine. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-16 18:51 |
| #35 Lol! Did you check out my last links? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 18:48 |
| #34 "What's your IP, PR?" My IP. :) |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-16 18:45 |
| #33 What's your IP, PR? I'll block it to save you from such horrors, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 18:15 |
| #32 I think it's important to be able to go from this (NSFW) to this so you'll know she really did support the troops, in her own special way. I'll bet she was O Positive, too. Way to go, Whitney, heh. How are those grandchildren? ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 18:09 |
| #31 "Depends on the subject - but what are you afraid of finding? Pubic lice? |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-16 18:08 |
| #30 How many blind physicans do you find? Forensic scientists? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-16 18:03 |
| #29 Depends on the subject - but what are you afraid of finding? :p |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 17:38 |
| #28 sumtimez to muchn detayles not gud tho. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-08-16 17:36 |
| #27 So true. :) You can zoom and zoom and zoom and, well, count stuff, lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 17:22 |
| #26 .com, digital photography really has improved dramatically :-) |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-08-16 17:20 |
| #25 As big as your head, bro, really, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 17:08 |
| #24 nise .com :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-08-16 17:07 |
| #23 WA - I have the study materials ready. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 17:02 |
| #22 What, no complaints about wasting $ on more worthless research? Could it be the subject matter? This needs more research. |
| Posted by: Weird Al 2005-08-16 16:54 |
| #21 Jeez, next thing you know we'll find out it also may contribute to hairy palms. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2005-08-16 15:28 |
| #20 :) There's inspiration in those pixels, heh. I saw some recent pix of Nadine - and she still looks awesome, weathering very well, indeed. Good genes, heh. These "livepix" images are now no longer available, AFAICT. PB got all pissy and snotty with the websites that featured them and shut them down. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 15:06 |
| #19 Emotionally induced blindness. I wonder if I could have used my low threshold for this syndrom to explain my poor grades in high school to my parents. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-16 14:57 |
| #18 You are a true friend .com :-) |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-08-16 14:53 |
| #17 You're trying to access it directly. That's a no-no so that people don't bash my server to death posting links to my RB-linked images in other sites. Just right-click on the link and choose open in new window / tab. Works fine in Maxthon, IE, and Firefox. It has to be opened from this RB page either with a direct left-click or right-click. No passing these babies out to non-RBers, heh. Feel free to D/L and email or whatever - but passing along direct linkys doesn't fly. ;-> |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 14:48 |
| #16 OK, OK! I won't watch any more porn while driving! Sheesh... Does it count though if the people in the SUV in the next lane are watching porn on their DVD player? |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-08-16 14:46 |
| #15 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /images/200010_NicoleVanCroft.jpg on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.zzzzzzzzz.com Port 80 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-16 14:34 |
| #14 For TGA, a very nice German fraulein - and a personal favorite, Nadine Chanz. (~5MB 3959x7952 and, yes, NSFW) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 14:08 |
| #13 Heh, crop your favorite bit(s) from this to fit your screen and you'll see what I mean. (~4.5MB - 3688x6568 - yeah, lifesize and just a tad NSFW) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 13:33 |
| #12 great! a lapdance by your wallpaper... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-16 13:09 |
| #11 yeah, my wallpaper's so, um, top-heavy I keep getting the feeling it's about to tip over - right into my lap. Who'da thunk it? Not that I'm complaining, y'see - or can you? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-16 13:01 |
| #10 that's why they make 36" monitors now.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-16 12:53 |
| #9 I can still see just fine... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-16 12:28 |
| #8 Research flawed. I can read. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-08-16 12:28 |
| #7 What did this article say? My eyesights a bit bad. |
| Posted by: Ulereger Clavigum6227 2005-08-16 12:25 |
| #6 Janet Reno or Helen Thomas in a babydoll OW! My eyes... |
| Posted by: N guard 2005-08-16 12:21 |
| #5 I'm so confused... Is that why I'm wearing glasses? Should I stop my bad habits while there is still time? Anyway, I thought it was supposed to be hairy palms, not blindness. My palms aren't hairy, but my legs and feet are, and so is my lily-white butt, is this normal? Please, someone tell. Damn, this research is very perplexing! I'm so glad they spent a lot of grant money to do it! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-08-16 09:52 |
| #4 Don't know if porn makes you go blind. Janet Reno or Helen Thomas in a babydoll would for sure. And you'd want it, too |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-08-16 09:30 |
| #3 Hell, that isn't because of Porn, its because they are distracted! The same happens if they just had an 'emotionally charged' phone call, or if ther SO is -er- doing certain things, or ..... Now where's the hell is my white cane.... hate it when people move things... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-08-16 09:06 |
| #2 "....phenomenon known as emotion-induced blindness." I could tell that researchers heavily used the Koran as reference material. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-16 08:58 |
| #1 So we should ban porno on cell phone screens so drivers won't be even more distracted? |
| Posted by: Jirt Omager7355 2005-08-16 08:39 |
