How Would Most Women Feel if Another Woman Got a Great Car?

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Joyce Meyer: I have work on status and trying to understand how women and men cope with different status levels. The woman does really well for herself. And how would a man feel? So we asked women about women and we asked men about men. And the women felt worse than the men. It basically says, yeah, men want to get the status. They're really motivated to get status. But if some other guy gets it, he gets it. There's just not the same, oh, how could she have this?

Joyce Benenson is a lecturer of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University whose research focuses on human social structures and sex differences in competition and cooperation.

We're often told that men are more competitive, more status-driven and more ruthless with rivals for potential mates. In reality doesn't seem to be true, the difference is that women's competition takes a more subtle, cynical and sophisticated route to drive away their competitors.

Expect to learn how women compete for status, why women exclude more than men, why women who promote an egalitarian world are less charitable than you might think, how you can interfere with a rivals' relationship without getting caught, the usefulness of gossip as an enforcement mechanism and much more...

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