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NORWICH (Reuters) - Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday.

New research has shown that men bond together and cooperate well in the face of adversity to protect their interests more than women, which could explain why war is almost exclusively a male business, according to Professor Mark van Vugt of the University of Kent in southern England.

"Men respond more strongly to outward threats, we've labeled that the 'man warrior effect'," he told the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.

"Men are more likely to support a country going to war. Men are more likely sign up for the military and men are more likely to lead groups in more autocratic, militaristic ways than women," he added.

Van Vugt said the finding is consistent with results from different behavioral science disciplines.

In experiments with 300 university men and women students, Van Vugt and his team gave the volunteers small sums of money which they could either keep or invest in a common fund that would be doubled and equally divided. None of the students knew what the others were doing.

Both sexes cooperated in investing in the fund. But when the groups were told they were competing against other universities, the males were more eager to invest rather than keep their money while the number of women contributing remained the same.

"We all know males are more aggressive than females," Van Vugt said, adding that co-operation is needed to establish institutions and governments and to wage wars.

"Male co-operation is a double-edged sword," he added.

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Originally posted by Akira99
God when will this bullshit ever stop? It does not tell us anything we don't already know. There should be fewer men in the world - when at last we are free to decide the gender of our children as much effort into convincing the public that 3:1 female : male would make the world a much better place. Although this article is the usually Politically Correct BS we have seen for the past 30 yeats it does I suppose have some good in showing why less men would be good.
Allow me to direct you to an article that will support the belief that more women and less men would give this silly article the boost it needs.
www.angryharry.com/esMoreWomenThanMenRequired.htm

Yes of course men CAN be brutes. We have testosterone. We are naturally inclined to be masculine. Masculinity can be a blessing provided it is wielded well e.g. Medicines, buildings, technology, everything that has improved the progress of the world stems from masculinity - the hard, obsessed, FOCUSED traits associated with CONSTRUCTIVE masculinity. When masculinity goes WRONG for whatever reason such as provoking men into acting like "BRUTES" through their environment, it is blatantly clear and obvious that Wars, aggression, controversy and worse will occur. DESTRUCTIVE masculinity.
Similarly feminity can be constructive [nurturing, etc.] or destructive as protrayed insidiously through polite yet vicious and DESTRUCTIVE feminism and allied Political Correctness [manipulation etc.]
Men can be Brutes. Men can be HEROES. Women can be heroes. Women can be BRUTES.

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Originally posted by BackFire
MY PENIS IS BIGGER THAN YOURS AND I WILL FIGHT YOU TO PROVE IT!

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Originally posted by Akira99
Uh yeh like feminism - its main agenda which even the smartest seem oblivious to is demonising the male gender through every means at their disposal

And its women's instinct to survive and their greediness as well and no more than men. We are walking wallets after all and women have manipulated us from the beginning for their own reasons mostly self-centered

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Originally posted by Akira99
Uh yeh like feminism - its main agenda which even the smartest seem oblivious to is demonising the male gender through every means at their disposal

And its women's instinct to survive and their greediness as well and no more than men. We are walking wallets after all and women have manipulated us from the beginning for their own reasons mostly self-centered

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Originally posted by tabby999
But i am prone to the occasional sudden outburst