{"id":383334,"date":"2017-10-04T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=78600b2dce70033cbef046b7d45f89bc"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:16:46","slug":"women-use-gossip-to-compete-for-a-mans-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=383334","title":{"rendered":"Women use gossip to compete for a man&#8217;s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although both men and women gossip, women may be more likely to use gossiping and rumour-mongering as tactics to badmouth a potential rival who is competing for a man&#8217;s attention. Women also gossip more about other women&#8217;s looks, whereas men talk about cues to resource holding (e.g., wealth) and the athleticism of their competitors. According to Adam Davis of the University of Ottawa in Canada, gossiping is a highly evolved social skill and an intrasexual competition tactic that relates to women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s evolved preferences. He therefore sees it as essential for interpersonal relationships, and not a flaw of character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although both men and women gossip, women may be more likely to use gossiping and rumour-mongering as tactics to badmouth a potential rival who is competing for a man&#8217;s attention. Women also gossip more about other women&#8217;s looks, whereas men talk about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383335,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383334\/revisions\/383335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}