Modern Wisdom

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

Jan 23, 2023

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The Perils of Vulnerability in Female Friendship

02:00

The Effect of Me Too on Female Academic Economists' Collaborations

01:30

The Social Vulnerability of Women

01:16

The Chain of Command in Warfare

03:42

Introduction

5min

The Challenges Faced by Our Female Ancestors

3min

The Chain of Command in Warfare

4min

Female Intersectional Competition Is More Complex Than Male Friendships

5min

Women's Reputational Loyalty to Women

3min

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

4min

Is There a Gender Bias in Moral Typecasting?

3min

Is It Possible to Recognize Men's Suffering?

3min

Women Outperform Men in a Political Race

4min

10.

What Are Female Allies Doing for Aloe Care?

4min

11.

Why Women Would Want Non-Kin Non-Partner Male Compatriots

3min

12.

Men and Women in the Workplace

4min

13.

Women Don't Like Attractive Women

3min

14.

Women and Sexual Harassment - A Meta-Analysis

3min

15.

Why Women Don't Engage in Physical Aggression

2min

16.

Women's Well-Being Is More on a Knife Edge Than Men's

2min

17.

Is Sexual Indiscretion Harming Women's Reputation?

2min

18.

Women's Preparation to Talk About Their Sexual Past Is Mediated by the Local Sex Ratio

4min

19.

Why Women Share Negative Reputational Information When They Have More Male Sons

2min

20.

Women Condemn Women's Sexual Prosecucuity and So You Think So

2min

21.

Women Share Information About Their Friends Transgressions

4min

22.

The Halo Effect or Pretty Privilege Is a Double Edged Sword

3min

23.

Male Male Interaction

2min

24.

How Female Competition Changes Approaches to Diet and Lose Weight

2min

25.

I Think the Sex Ratio Is Becoming More and More Skewed Towards More Women on Campuses

2min

26.

Social Media Is Like Particularly Bad Because They Feel Like Peers

2min

27.

Is the Current Mating Crisis Creating a Sexualized Culture for Women to Step Into?

2min

28.

Is It a True Counterculture to a Hyper Sexualized World?

2min

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How to Write a Theory Paper on Women's Strategy to Evoke Care

2min

Dr Tania Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of New Mexico whose research focuses on women's intrasexual competition, biases in moral evaluations and social and sexual selection.

Ancestrally, men needed to go to war and hunt. Given this, it would be rather useful to be friends with the spear-wielding bloke next to you so that you know he's got your back. Women's use case for friends is much more subtle and difficult to determine however, and today we try to decipher the underpinnings of female friendships.

Expect to learn why women dislike working underneath a female boss, the painful social existence that very attractive women have to endure, why both men and women bias seeing women as victims and men as perpetrators, why women develop opposite-sex friendships, the most common ways women derogate their rivals, why sexual gossip is a ruthless precision engineered tool and much more...

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