Games Primates Play

The evolution and economics of human relationships.
by Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D.

Can Erotic Videos Help Football Players Score Touch Downs?

By Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D. on January 9, 2012 in Games Primates Play

A recent study conducted in the U.K. reported that professional male rugby players who watched a brief erotic video (a clip featuring exotic dancing) before going to the gym showed increased performance on a squat workout. A similar effect was produced by watching a video clip of big rugby hits. Read More

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • You may quote other posts using [quote] tags.

More information about formatting options

Subscribe to Games Primates Play

Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D.

Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D., is a professor of comparative human development, evolutionary biology, and neurobiology at the University of Chicago.

more...

Games Primates PlayRecent Posts

Clear-cut dominance in couples increases stability.
Men call their female partners less often.
It takes brainpower to win the social chess game.
What love is and where it comes from
Evolution, knowledge, death, and the meaning of life
More of Games Primates Play blog

Current Issue

The High Art of Handling Problem People

How to handle difficult people.