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

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... Timestamps: (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 We…