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Sportswomen Are Bad Losers: New Study Claims
We need to rally up some Girl Power A.S.A.P
Research, published in the journal Current Biology, showed that men were almost three times as likely to have physical contact beyond a handshake than women when they thank, concede or console a sporting rival.
This is supposedly because of something called the 'male-warrior hypothesis.'
This is the idea that cavemen needed to be friends, or friendly, with their caveman competitors, but women hold more of a grudge.
Joyce Benendon, from Harvard University, said of the theory, 'We believe that human social structure resembles that of chimpanzees, in which males cooperate in groups of unrelated same-sex peers and females cooperate more with family members and one or two friends who act as family.'
