Listen to this articleDo you women ever wonder why us men tend to ignore your requests for help around the house or even to do the exact opposite? Well we now have the answer – we were born that way.
“Yes honey, I know you asked me to cut the video games off, but according to new research at Duke university I have unintentionally reactance to your requests where I resist social influences that I subconsciously perceive as a threat to my autonomy.”
What did finding all of this information do – absolutely nothing. Take the married couple who were over the study:
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.”
Science is amazing. Eventually the only thing that will continue to be our fault will be global warming.
