Sociology 2233 Chapter : Gender Differeneces in Cooperation and Competition
30 Jan 2012
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Cooperation: a form of altruism, helping others reach their goals, which may help us reach our goals as well. Competition: a win-lose approach, where the other person is viewed as a rival and they reach their goals at your expense. \ from an evolutionary psychologists perspective, cooperation with kin and competition with out groups helped survival. > experiment results showed that men contributed more to their group if there was group competition compared to none. \ this suggests that men respond more strongly to group competition. > humans easily make us vs them categorizations, even when group membership is based on something trivial like a flip of a coin. > women are more interpersonally oriented and men are more group oriented. Male warrior hypothesis: that men are more intergroup oriented; which causes men to increase their altruistic group contributions during intergroup competition. > in historical terms, warrior men had more mates and higher status in their communities.
