The influence of sexual orientation on reputational punishment of other women’s behaviour

Hughes, Shelby; Champion, Amanda; Brown, Kailie; Hesse, Cassandra L.; Pedersen, Cory L.

doi:10.1080/19419899.2020.1728366

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“…Prior research has indicated that women seek to harm the reputation of samesex competitors by transmitting reputation-damaging and withholding reputationenhancing information (Hughes et al, 2020;Reynolds, 2016;Reynolds et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Overall, women sought to harm the reputation of rivals posing a direct (flirting with their partner) or indirect (conventionally attractive, dressed promiscuously) threat to their mating prospects by selectively transmitting reputation-damaging pieces of information and withholding reputation-enhancing ones. Hughes et al (2020) expanded on Reynolds and colleagues' work by exploring whether lesbian women employ similar competitive strategies. Female participants identifying as straight or lesbian viewed a sexualized or neutral photograph of a woman and were asked how likely they would be to share certain reputation-damaging statements about the rival's life with others.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is important to further expand on this area by involving participants of various sexual orientations and including this as an additional factor. This would serve to identify whether women's sexuality affects competitive tactics, as was suggested in Hughes et al (2020), as well as provide further insights into how women who are non-competitors are viewed and interacted with.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hughes et al (2020) expanded on Reynolds and colleagues’ work by exploring whether lesbian women use similar competitive strategies. Female participants identifying as straight or lesbian viewed a sexualized or neutral photograph of a woman and were asked how likely they would be to share certain reputation-damaging statements about the rival’s life with others.…”

Section: Intrasexual Competition: Theory and Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Those findings left certain questions unanswered. In Hughes and colleagues’ study (Hughes et al, 2020), straight participants were presented with only straight targets and lesbian participants with only lesbian targets. This is understandable given that the purpose of their study was to examine intrasexual competition within each sexuality group.…”

Section: Intrasexual Competition: Theory and Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Female intrasexual competition is affected by the sexual orientation of the target and the ovulatory cycle.

Bakolas¹,

Park²

2023

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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Research suggests that women employ indirect aggression strategies to compete with same-sex peers and improve their mating prospects. One such tactic involves strategically transmitting reputation-damaging information as opposed to reputation-enhancing information, to lessen the appeal of sexual rivals. The present study further examined whether this strategic information transmission constitutes an intrasexual competition strategy, by comparing denigration of same-sex peers who constitute sexual competitors or noncompetitors as determined by their sexual orientation. This study also explored the impact of the ovulatory cycle on this strategy, following research suggesting that hormone fluctuation drives subtle behavioral changes near ovulation, amplifying other forms of intrasexual competition between women. Results indicated that among women identifying as straight, exposure to a same-sex peer who constituted a sexual rival (straight/bisexual target) led to greater transmission of reputation-damaging information relative to reputationenhancing information, compared to exposure to a noncompetitor (lesbian target).The ovulatory cycle was found to be associated with denigration, but this did not depend on the sexuality of the target. Participants in the estimated high-estrogen phase showed greater denigration overall than participants in the low-estrogen phase, regardless of the target's sexuality.

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Section: Intrasexual Competition: Theory and Mechanismsmentioning

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