They put them into a brain scan machine -- this is apocryphal by the way, but I don't care -- and they had them watch a horror movie, and then they had them describe their feelings toward their wives.
把中年男子放进脑扫描机器里-- 这没什么根据，但无所谓-- 让这些中年男子看恐怖电影， 再让他们叙述他们面对妻子的感受。