Episode
#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
1:23:58
Published: Mon Jan 23 2023
Description
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... Sponsors: Get 15% discount on Craftd London’s jewellery at https://bit.ly/cdwisdom (use code MW15) Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount on Cured Nutrition’s CBD at https://curednutrition.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Extra Stuff: Follow Tania on Twitter - https://twitter.com/taniaarline Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/
Chapters
In this podcast, the speaker discusses various social behaviors and biases of women, including why women tend to dislike working for female bosses and how attractive women face painful social existence.
00:00 - 04:47 (04:47)
Summary
In this podcast, the speaker discusses various social behaviors and biases of women, including why women tend to dislike working for female bosses and how attractive women face painful social existence.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The evolution of female same-sex relationships is discussed.
04:47 - 16:04 (11:16)
Summary
The evolution of female same-sex relationships is discussed. Throughout human history, women formed cooperative relationships under conditions of symmetry, and deviations from that could be more corrosive to same-sex relationships.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Women tend to value personal commitment, loyalty, and devotion in their relationships, and engage in co-rumination where they focus on vulnerabilities and setbacks.
16:04 - 23:34 (07:29)
Summary
Women tend to value personal commitment, loyalty, and devotion in their relationships, and engage in co-rumination where they focus on vulnerabilities and setbacks. In same-sex friendships, bragging is discouraged and compliments are often undermined.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Researchers conducted a study that found people more easily blame men than women and feel sympathy towards women.
23:34 - 33:31 (09:56)
Summary
Researchers conducted a study that found people more easily blame men than women and feel sympathy towards women. They suggest further examining the moral credits people receive for promoting actions to help women compared to men.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The perception of cross-sex friendships is skewed by the male over-perception and the female under-perception bias of attraction.
33:31 - 39:08 (05:37)
Summary
The perception of cross-sex friendships is skewed by the male over-perception and the female under-perception bias of attraction. The non-kin female allies of men are challenging to identify, but they may function as a rival elimination system.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Studies show that gender bias in the workplace can result in male senior employees refusing to mentor junior female workers or hire attractive women, and also lead to female workers avoiding working closely with senior male colleagues, especially those who are attractive, resulting in gender separation.
39:08 - 46:42 (07:34)
Summary
Studies show that gender bias in the workplace can result in male senior employees refusing to mentor junior female workers or hire attractive women, and also lead to female workers avoiding working closely with senior male colleagues, especially those who are attractive, resulting in gender separation.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Men become more cooperative than women over repeated mixed-sex interactions in social dilemmas; however, when playing games with a partner, as men and women diverge further in their purity concerns, women become less cooperative than men in same-sex interactions leading to a larger disparity between their behaviors.
46:42 - 57:34 (10:52)
Summary
Men become more cooperative than women over repeated mixed-sex interactions in social dilemmas; however, when playing games with a partner, as men and women diverge further in their purity concerns, women become less cooperative than men in same-sex interactions leading to a larger disparity between their behaviors.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
This podcast episode explores the connection between slut shaming, women's sexuality, and the evolution of mate preferences in the context of changing societal norms.
57:34 - 1:04:28 (06:54)
Summary
This podcast episode explores the connection between slut shaming, women's sexuality, and the evolution of mate preferences in the context of changing societal norms.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The research of this podcast discusses how women tend to derogate by sharing information about other women and framing it as pro-social concern.
1:04:29 - 1:13:01 (08:32)
Summary
The research of this podcast discusses how women tend to derogate by sharing information about other women and framing it as pro-social concern.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The current mating crisis, sex ratio skew in universities and hypogamy, could be motivating an increasingly sexualised culture for women to step into.
1:13:01 - 1:21:13 (08:11)
Summary
The current mating crisis, sex ratio skew in universities and hypogamy, could be motivating an increasingly sexualised culture for women to step into. Studies have shown that when women perceive that there are more females in their environment, they perceive more intense mating competition and feel worse about their bodies.
Episode#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The podcast explores how women's neotenous features, such as larger eyes and child-like body structure, evoke care from others and influence different mating strategies, such as super chase or sexually uninhibited.
1:21:13 - 1:23:56 (02:42)
Summary
The podcast explores how women's neotenous features, such as larger eyes and child-like body structure, evoke care from others and influence different mating strategies, such as super chase or sexually uninhibited. The episode also contains an advertisement for 20% off cured nutrition CBD sleep products using the code MW20 at checkout.