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Men's hierarchies revolve more around the ability to extract resources, but also looks. Since men benefit from cooperation in resource extraction, their intrasexual competition is more productive and cooperative than women's. | Men's hierarchies revolve more around the ability to extract resources, but also looks. Since men benefit from cooperation in resource extraction, their intrasexual competition is more productive and cooperative than women's. | ||
Women's hierarchies revolve around looks and a reputation of loyalty and related traits that men desire in women. Women's intrasexual competition mainly consists in destroying one another's reputation as well as gossiping about looks because women do not gain as much from cooperation as men.<ref>http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.011</ref> | Women's hierarchies revolve around looks and a reputation of sexual loyalty (non-sluttiness) and related traits that men desire in women. Women's intrasexual competition mainly consists in destroying one another's reputation as well as gossiping about looks because women do not gain as much from cooperation as men.<ref>http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.011</ref> | ||
Humans have various behaviors that are involved in status negotiation and signaling, most of which occurs subconsciously.<ref>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7877/6c171da1ecb4b308aaa0c95b1af6f11a1271.pdf</ref> Some of them are listed below. | Humans have various behaviors that are involved in status negotiation and signaling, most of which occurs subconsciously.<ref>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7877/6c171da1ecb4b308aaa0c95b1af6f11a1271.pdf</ref> Some of them are listed below. | ||