The Hidden Motives Behind Female Friendships - Dr Tania Reynolds

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 #evolutionarypsychology #female #competition - 00:00 Intro 00:26 Why Women Don’t Like Female Bosses 09:06 Are Female Friendships More Vicious? 19:04 How People Respond to Male Suffering 28:22 What Women Get From Friendships 32:02 Why Women Develop Opposite-Sex Friendships 45:18 The Useful Weapon of Gossip 55:50 Tania’s Research into Slut-Shaming 1:02:09 The ‘Bless Her Heart’ Effect 1:08:00 How Female Competition Impacts Self-Image & Diet 1:13:22 What is Driving the Increasing Sexualisation of Society? 1:16:40 Where to Find Dr Reynolds - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Dr Tania ReynoldsguestChris Williamsonhost

Jan 23, 20231h 18mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: January 23, 2023
Duration: 1h 18m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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 #evolutionarypsychology #female #competition - 00:00 Intro 00:26 Why Women Don’t Like Female Bosses 09:06 Are Female Friendships More Vicious? 19:04 How People Respond to Male Suffering 28:22 What Women Get From Friendships 32:02 Why Women Develop Opposite-Sex Friendships 45:18 The Useful Weapon of Gossip 55:50 Tania’s Research into Slut-Shaming 1:02:09 The ‘Bless Her Heart’ Effect 1:08:00 How Female Competition Impacts Self-Image & Diet 1:13:22 What is Driving the Increasing Sexualisation of Society? 1:16:40 Where to Find Dr Reynolds - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Dr Tania Reynolds
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Dr Tania Reynolds and Chris Williamson, The Hidden Motives Behind Female Friendships - Dr Tania Reynolds explores evolutionary Roots Of Female Friendship, Rivalry, Gossip, And Care Dr. Tania Reynolds explains how ancestral conditions like patrilocality and different reproductive pressures shaped distinct male and female patterns of cooperation, competition, and friendship. Women historically relied on symmetric, one‑to‑one alliances with unrelated females, making kindness and personal loyalty central—and making status gaps and competition especially corrosive to female friendships.

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