Some people like sex so much they make exclamation marks on the questionnaire. Other people give you the lowest possible response, Reiss says. Howard Hughes bought a movie studio to be close to women, and he used his electronics companies to track as many as 167 women a day. And then you have somebody like the Unabomber who goes out into Montana and obviously is not pursuing the opposite sex at all. Its the individual differences that are important, he says.
Social contact is another example.
If somebody else is in the room, I dont know of a human being alive that would be indifferent to that, Reiss says. Either you like it or you dont like it, and one way or another its going to affect your motivation. The study also showsno surprisethat men and women really are different. Men, for example, ranked sex and vengeance much higher than women. Women are more sensitive to anxiety and pain than men.