Another story of science catching up with what most players should know already.
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/scienc...women.html
The article itself can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...3/abstract
Note that these women are judging the woman solely on her looks. She's not trying to steal their boyfriends or even openly competing with them for any particular guy. She literally just walked into the room and they start bad mouthing her as soon as she leaves. But of course men are the shallow gender.
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/scienc...women.html
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This woman had been chosen by the researchers, Tracy Vaillancourt and Aanchal Sharma, because she “embodied qualities considered attractive from an evolutionary perspective,” meaning a “low waist-to-hip ratio, clear skin, large breasts.” Sometimes, she wore a T-shirt and jeans, other times a tightfitting, low-cut blouse and short skirt.
In jeans, she attracted little notice and no negative comments from the students, whose reactions were being secretly recorded during the encounter and after the woman left the room. But when she wore the other outfit, virtually all the students reacted with hostility.
They stared at her, looked her up and down, rolled their eyes and sometimes showed outright anger. One asked her in disgust, “What the [expletive] is that?”
Most of the aggression, though, happened after she left the room. Then the students laughed about her and impugned her motives. One student suggested that she dressed that way in order to have sex with a professor. Another said that her breasts “were about to pop out.”
The article itself can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...3/abstract
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Abstract
Intrasexual competition among males of different species, including humans, is well documented. Among females, far less is known. Recent nonexperimental studies suggest that women are intolerant of attractive females and use indirect aggression to derogate potential rivals. In Study 1, an experimental design was used to test the evolutionary-based hypothesis that women would be intolerant of sexy women and would censure those who seem to make sex too readily available. Results provide strong empirical support for intrasexual competition among women. Using independent raters, blind to condition, we found that almost all women were rated as reacting negatively (“bitchy”) to an attractive female confederate when she was dressed in a sexually provocative manner. In contrast, when she was dressed conservatively, the same confederate was barely noticed by the participants. In Study 2, an experimental design was used to assess whether the sexy female confederate from Study 1 was viewed as a sexual rival by women. Results indicated that as hypothesized, women did not want to introduce her to their boyfriend, allow him to spend time alone with her, or be friends with her. Findings from both studies are discussed in terms of evolutionary theory. Aggr. Behav. 37:569–577, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Note that these women are judging the woman solely on her looks. She's not trying to steal their boyfriends or even openly competing with them for any particular guy. She literally just walked into the room and they start bad mouthing her as soon as she leaves. But of course men are the shallow gender.