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Gossiping for Mates | Dr. Tania Reynolds

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Why Women Make Friends

Sally Kohn: Why do women make friends? She says it's a more complicated question than you might think. Some argue that female allies enhanced women's fertility, she says. Other data suggest they may have been useful as co-allitional defense partners for their social reputations and access to resources.Kohn: Women are using or can use their female allies as both reputational defense and as reputational offense in their leveraging of attacks.

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