New Research on Gender and Hot Sauce Reveals Classic Results

What does your love of spicy food say about you? New research revealed some interesting results.

Penn State researchers just released a report titled "Gender differences in the influence of personality traits on spicy food liking and intake."

The report finds that women who enjoy spicy food enjoy it because they like the taste.

Men on the other hand, do it for an entirely different reason.

Men enjoy spicy food for the "cultural association of consuming spicy foods with strength and machismo has created a learned social reward for men."

In other words, men eat spicy food for the "high fives."

So even when it comes to spicy foods, women do it because they like it and men do it because it will make them look like a bad ass.

Sounds right. Where's my Sriracha?