What Could He Be Thinking? , by Michael Gurian, a consultant in the field of neurobiology, takes this set of insights further. Gurian argues that men’s brains can actually feel invaded and overwhelmed by too much verbal processing of emotion, so that men’s need to zone out or do something mechanical rather than emote is often not a rejection of their spouses, but a neural need.
由神经生物学领域顾问麦克·古瑞创作的 《他到底在想什么？》 进一步发展了这样的看法。古瑞提出男人的大脑实际可以被太多关于情绪的语言加工侵入并且压倒，因此男人发呆或从事某些机械活动而不是表达感情的需求通常并不是拒绝伴侣的表现，而只是一种神经方面的需要。