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#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?

Modern Wisdom

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Women's Relationships - You Can't You Cannot Brag

In order to be the most popular girl in school you have to over-deliver on niceness because popularity and not niceness are negatively correlated. There's some evidence that women preferred another woman who was self-effacing rather than self-promoting. The movie Mean Girls which I think just got female interactions pretty spot on but there are data to support this so women tend to engage in this pattern of co-rumination in their friendships where it's kind of rehashing problems.

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