Sexually competitive women will advice each other to cut off their hair

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Off with her hair: Intrasexually competitive women advise other women to cut off more hair

Intrasexual competition between women is often covert, and targets rivals' appearance. Here we investigate appearance advice as a vector for female in…

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The study finds that:

Highlights​

• Women use competitor manipulation as a form of intrasexual competition.
• Highly competitive women advised hypothetical salon clients to cut off more hair.
• Women told clients of similar attractiveness as themselves to cut off the most hair.
• Female intrasexual competition may be assortative with respect to mate quality.
• Female intrasexual competition manifests without any contextual cues to mating.

 

[Todd Thundercock]

Correct, and I've seen this happen with one I knew.