Word to the wise, guys: Give a girl the eye and you might not just be committing an unwanted advance; you might be denting the co-ed's capacity for cognition. So say a pair of psychologists trying to prove the feminist theory that the experience of being sexually "objectified" overburdens the female brain.

In a paper recently published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, researchers Robin K. Gay and Emanuele Castano set out to document the detrimental effect of women being on the receiving end of appraising glances....