Good morning Destroyers, We have all heard the cliche about women getting ripped off at the mechanics, but is it really a thing? Are people more inclined to lie to women? Researchers at the University of California–Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania asked MBA students to participate a study where they role-played scenarios as real estate agents given a decision to tell the truth or to lie. “We found that in the role-play, people were significantly more likely to blatantly lie to women,” says Laura Kray, the lead author of the study. “To women, for instance, the buyer’s agents would say, ‘They will be luxury condos,’ but to men, they would say, ‘I can’t tell you.’ ” After the negotiation, students were asked to disclose whether they lied. Both men and women reported lying to women more often. Twenty-four percent of men said they lied to a female partner, while only 3 percent of men said they lied to a male partner. Women also lied to other women (17 percent), but they lied to men as well (11 percent). Perhaps even more telling: People were more likely to let men in on secrets. “Men were more likely to be given preferential treatment,” says Kray. In several instances, buyer’s agents revealed their client’s true intentions to men saying, “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but … ” This sort of privileged information was never offered to women. slate.me/1lT7w8q Destroyers, have you witnessed or experienced women being lied to more because they are women? What are the ramifications for women being given false information through out their lives?
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 01:23:41 +0000
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