{"id":56971,"date":"2013-12-26T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56971"},"modified":"2015-02-01T03:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T08:26:03","slug":"men-feel-bad-around-smart-successful-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/26\/men-feel-bad-around-smart-successful-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Feel Bad Around Smart, Successful Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>You know all those badass ladies out there that are inexplicably single? Well, maybe it’s not so inexplicable.<\/p>\n

In a study contending for most-depressing-research-of-the-year<\/a>, psychologists Kate Ratliff and Shigehiro Oishi tested how a romantic partner’s success or failure affects the self-esteem of people in heterosexual relationships. \u00a0The short story: men feel bad about themselves when good things happen to their female partners. \u00a0Women’s self-esteem is unaffected. \u00a0Here’s some of the data.<\/p>\n

The vertical axis represents self-esteem. In this experiment, respondents were told that their partner scored high on a test of intelligence (“positive feedback”) or low (“negative feedback”). \u00a0The leftmost bars show that men who were told that their partners were smart reported significantly lower self-esteem than those who heard that their partners weren’t so smart.<\/p>\n

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In the second condition, respondents were asked to imagine a partner’s success or failure. \u00a0Doing so had no effect on women’s self-esteem (rightmost bars). \u00a0For men, however, imagining their partners’ success made them feel bad about themselves, whereas imagining their failure made them feel good.\"Screenshot_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The various experiments were conducted with American and Dutch college students as well as a diverse Internet sample. \u00a0The findings were consistent across populations and were particularly surprising in the context of the Netherlands, which is generally believed to be more gender egalitarian.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a long way to go.<\/p>\n

Cross-posted at The Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0and Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in. \u00a0Enjoy! \u00a0You know all those badass ladies out there that are inexplicably single? Well, maybe it’s not so inexplicable. In a study contending for most-depressing-research-of-the-year, psychologists Kate Ratliff and Shigehiro Oishi tested how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[387,34,329,55,2101,2088,2087,2098,23679,2100,2104,272,1789,3920,283,76],"class_list":["post-56971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dating","tag-education","tag-emotion","tag-gender","tag-gender-education","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-subordination","tag-gender-work","tag-knowledgeintelligence","tag-marriagefamily","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-united-states","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_14.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65776,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56971\/revisions\/65776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}