Caffeine Helps Women More Than Men
It appears that women in stressful situations are benefited by caffeine while men under the same amounts of stress are actually hindered by the caffeine.
Researchers at Bristol University, UK put male and female subjects in stressful situations where they had to solve complex problems and present their findings to their peers. Some were given decaf coffee while others were given regular coffee.
The females that consumed the caffeine performed much better than the females without caffeine while the males that consumed caffeine actually performed worse than the males drinking decaf.
This research has several business implications as coffee is often on tap during high pressure business meetings and negotiations. The caffeine could actually be hurting business.
Can you think of any other ways this research could be useful?
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There’s at least 7 other active organic ingredients in coffee, such as 2-ethylphenol, quinic acid, dimethyl disulfide, whose biological effects are not fully understood. The study strictly focuses on the effects of coffee, not the caffeine itself.
No it doesn’t because they used both regular coffee and decaf coffee in the study, the only variable was the caffeine..
I’d wonder what the physiological explanation for this is (the article glosses over it). But the whole result found is a bit suspicious since it would imply men have been drinking coffee all these years under stress for no reason other than to perform worse?
hahahahaha that is so not true
maybe its true who knows
You’d need a broader group of males/females to get accurate results, and it could be that some of the males & females react to stress differently. It is odd that males performed worse than females when given coffee, maybe it was the testosterone, no one knows