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April 2023 Issue [Readings]

Conspicuous Combustion

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From the abstract of “Small Penises and Fast Cars,a study conducted by researchers at University College London.

In this experiment, we manipulated what men believed about their own penis sizes relative to those of others. We gave them false information, stating that the average penis size was larger than it is, reasoning that these males would feel that their own penises were smaller than the average. These men were compared to other men who were told that the average penis size was smaller than the true average. We then asked both groups of men to rate how much they would like to own a sports car. These facts and questions were buried among other information so as to mask our hypothesis from participants. We found that males, and males over thirty in particular, rated sports cars as more desirable when they were made to feel that they had a small penis.


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