An article that shows why your research productivity dropped off: you got married.

“The productivity of male scientists tends to drop right after marriage,” says Kanazawa in an e-mail interview from his current office at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. “Scientists tend to ‘desist’ from scientific research upon marriage, just like criminals desist from crime upon marriage.”

I like how the writer juxtaposes research with crime.

Kanazawa’s perhaps controversial perspective is that of an evolutionary psychologist. “Men conduct scientific research (or do anything else) in order to attract women and get married (albeit unconsciously),” he says.

Yeah, that’s why I do what I do. For the chicks. Wait a minute — that’s not why I do science! Oh… wait… it’s unconscious. Guess I’ll never know now.

I just hope that now that I’ve got reproduction out of the way, I’ll be stimulated to do more research, while avoiding becoming so attractive to women that I get married again, thus ending my creative streak. Such a tightrope, isn’t it.