Erotic Images Can Turn You Blind
Researchers have finally found evidence that erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners’ calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents.
The new study by US psychologists found that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process images they see immediately afterwards. And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as "emotion-induced blindness".
"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," they explain.
Interesting...
If a simple erotic image can make you go temporarily blind, imagine what a full hardcore porn movie could do!
No wonder there are so many bad drivers in the world :P
[Source: New Scientist]
[Via: Sabbah]
