Mean Girls - Tracy Vaillancourt | Maiden Mother Matriarch 73

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My guest today is Tracy Vaillancourt, professor in the Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and also the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. We spoke about aggression among teenage girls, how boys and girls differ in their aggressive tactics, why women dislike overt sexiness in other women, and why female intra-sexual competition peaks during women's most fertile years.

In the extended part of the episode, we also spoke about the differences in bullying behaviour between men and women, why some female friendships are immune to conflict, and why attractive girls are most likely to be bullied at school.

2:22 Female competition and teenage girls
5:04 Tearing down hierarchies
8:00 What other hierarchies do girls do this in?
9:30 To what extent do they realise they are doing this?
14:49 Managing girls emotional health
17:02 How do you protect the tall poppies?
19:31 How do boys differ?
21:11 What’s going on here evolutionarily?
24:36 Improving cohesion
30:00 What personality traits feed into bitchiness?
31:05 Do women get nicer about this?
32:42 Competing for a mate or caring for children
33:11 Moral disengagement
36:20 Sexy confederate study
39:20 Dressing more conservatively
41:15 Are older women more tolerant?
42.25 Boastfulness
44.00 Donald Trump

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