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Are there Differences in Friendship Expectations Between Men and Women?
04:51 - 12:04 (07:12)
The idea that there's a long history in humans of males staying in their natal group and females often leaving and ending up in their male partner's group may predispose women to form kin-like relationships to make other women more invested in helping them with their offspring. With alloparenting, the cost of choosing the wrong friend to look after your child is so great that the threshold for calling them a good friend needs to be higher than for men.
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Research shows that having a few close female friends can increase a female primate's longevity and the health of her offspring.
04:51 - 07:00 (02:08)
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Research shows that having a few close female friends can increase a female primate's longevity and the health of her offspring. Female-female relationships have strong links to female fitness.
ChapterAre there Differences in Friendship Expectations Between Men and Women?
Episode#553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship
PodcastModern Wisdom
Female friendships go beyond what meets the eye as there is a hypothesis that suggests kin-like relationships among women to secure a more invested support system in raising offspring.
07:00 - 10:40 (03:40)
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Female friendships go beyond what meets the eye as there is a hypothesis that suggests kin-like relationships among women to secure a more invested support system in raising offspring. The cost of choosing a wrong friend to look after a child might contribute to the higher threshold for calling someone a good friend compared to men.
ChapterAre there Differences in Friendship Expectations Between Men and Women?
Episode#553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship
PodcastModern Wisdom
The way men and women communicate differs in terms of frequency and structure.
10:40 - 11:20 (00:39)
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The way men and women communicate differs in terms of frequency and structure. In a study by Robin Dunbar, he found that men tend to stand facing each other at an angle while women prefer to be face-to-face when communicating.
ChapterAre there Differences in Friendship Expectations Between Men and Women?
Episode#553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship
PodcastModern Wisdom
The angle that men stand when talking to each other is slightly open, at about 120 degrees which implies that standing face-to-face is perceived as confrontational for men, except when they are about to fight.
11:20 - 12:04 (00:43)
Summary
The angle that men stand when talking to each other is slightly open, at about 120 degrees which implies that standing face-to-face is perceived as confrontational for men, except when they are about to fight.