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Men Feel Worse About Themselves When Female Partners Succeed
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Men Feel Worse About Themselves When Female Partners Succeed


Men’s subconscious self-esteem related to female partner’s successes and failures

WASHINGTON — Deep down, men may not bask in the glory of their successful wives or girlfriends. While this is not true of women, men’s subconscious self-esteem may be bruised when their spouse or girlfriend excels, says a study published by the American Psychological Association.

It didn’t matter if their significant other was an excellent hostess or intelligent, men were more likely to feel subconsciously worse about themselves when their female partner succeeded than when she failed, according to the study published online in the APA Journal of Personality and Social Psychology®. However, women’s self-esteem was not affected by their male partners’ successes or failures, according to the research, which looked at heterosexual Americans and Dutch.

“It makes sense that a man might feel threatened if his girlfriend outperforms him in something they’re doing together, such as trying to lose weight,” said the study’s lead author, Kate Ratliff, PhD, of the University of Florida. “But this research found evidence that men automatically interpret a partner’s success as their own failure, even when they’re not in direct competition.”

Men subconsciously felt worse about themselves when they thought about a time when their female partner thrived in a situation in which they had failed, according to the findings. The researchers studied 896 people in five experiments.

In one experiment, 32 couples from the University of Virginia were given what was described as a “test of problem solving and social intelligence” and then told that their partner scored either in the top or bottom 12 percent of all university students. Hearing that their partner scored high or low on the test did not affect what the researchers called participants’ explicit self-esteem — i.e., how they said they felt.

Participants were also given a test to determine how they felt subconsciously about their partners’ performance, which the researchers called implicit self-esteem. In this test, a computer tracks how quickly people associate good and bad words with themselves. For example, participants with high implicit self-esteem who see the word “me” on a computer screen are more likely to associate it with words such as “excellent” or “good” rather than “bad” or “dreadful.” Visit the Project Implicit website to see a sample of the test.

Men who believed that their partner scored in the top 12 percent demonstrated significantly lower implicit self-esteem than men who believed their partner scored in the bottom 12 percent. Participants did not receive information about their own performance.

Findings were similar in two more studies conducted in the Netherlands. The Netherlands boasts one of the smallest gender gaps in labor, education and politics, according to the United Nations’ Gender Equality Index. However, like American men, Dutch men who thought about their romantic partner’s success subconsciously felt worse about themselves than men who thought about their partner’s failure, according to both studies. They said they felt fine but the test of implicit self-esteem revealed otherwise.

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for all our cave man instinct and brawn we can be quite insecure at times - and often about things that really shouldn't matter. Being overly competitive with other males is another flaw that seems to be a part of many peoples dna also. I really think we need to get over ourselves sometimes.

the only cure I know of is to watch the movie american beauty several times a week until the symptoms subside.





Edited by mel, 3 Oct 2013, 06:40 PM.
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mel
3 Oct 2013, 05:14 PM
the only cure I know of is too watch the movie american beauty several times a week until the symptoms subside.





Funny that I was thinking about the silly bitch in that movie today, and how good it would be if we could go back to when RE agents generally suffered, as they should.

Personally I've always felt more affinity with intelligent women, as long as they're not on some retarded feminazi trip.
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themoops
3 Oct 2013, 05:18 PM
Personally I've always felt more affinity with intelligent women...
That is so unlucky. Catch-22.
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Expect they do - If they feel at some level they are in 'competition' with their female partner?
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3 Oct 2013, 05:55 PM
That is so unlucky. Catch-22.
Yeah you're a lot like that bitch in the movie. All ego and status obsessed. Complete spiteful wanker of a woman. Spare me.
herbie
3 Oct 2013, 07:40 PM
Expect they do - If they feel at some level they are in 'competition' with their female partner?
I don't believe it at all. I reckon it's probably another article from the man hating feminazis.

The thing is it's very. very rare for a woman to be superior than a man, in terms of real work they're only attracted to doing law or medicine. Mostly law, but then they just give up on that because it's fucken hard even after you've got the degree. They almost always shy away from the STEM subjects because it's too nerdy.

So the article would have a very. very small sample to get it's conclusions from.
Edited by themoops, 3 Oct 2013, 07:46 PM.
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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
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themoops
3 Oct 2013, 07:40 PM
the movie.
the funny thing is i actually remember being able to relate every character in that film to someone close to me in my real life at one point or another. Great film on many levels imho
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3 Oct 2013, 07:46 PM
the funny thing is i actually remember being able to relate every character in that film to someone close to me in my real life at one point or another. Great film on many levels imho
A very nice set of boobs in it.
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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
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3 Oct 2013, 07:48 PM
A very nice set of boobs in it.
i have suspected you were a boob guy for a while moops. You should have seen the cans i had lined up for you in the lounge recently... political correctness is a bitch sometimes :lol
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themoops
3 Oct 2013, 05:18 PM
Funny that I was thinking about the silly bitch in that movie today
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themoops
3 Oct 2013, 07:48 PM
A very nice set of boobs in it.
Yep, that confirms it.

If you weren't such a wanker you might be able to get a real woman............probably not.
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