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===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">'Short man syndrome' is a myth - taller men are more likely to lose their tempers than short men</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">'Short man syndrome' is a myth - taller men are more likely to lose their tempers than short men</span>=== | ||
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The University of Central Lancashire research for the BBC found taller men were more likely to lose their temper. | |||
Men of different heights duelled with wooden sticks but one of the subjects deliberately provoked the other by rapping them across the knuckles. The research was designed to test Short Man Syndrome - or "Napoleon complex" - the theory that shorter men are more aggressive to dominate those who are taller than them. | |||
Heart monitors revealed it was the taller men who flew off the handle more quickly and hit back. | |||
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm | * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm | ||