Summary: <p>Fight fight fight! It’s a female competition special! We all know men duke it out in the name of love, honour and occasionally plain boredom, but do women also seek to outcompete members of their own sex? And is this question so controversial we shouldn’t even be asking it? <br> </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201312/PAP-2013-12.mp3">Download the MP3</a><br> </p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rg4SNP3DkcM/WfBsIjGnqwI/AAAAAAAACNA/RryE99X14TMy6jEnjPJp_u8KPh8BfKwvACLcBGAs/s1600/boxing.png"><br> <p><i>Women knocking seven bells out of each other. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aibaboxing/27007549470/">Boxing AIBA/Flickr</a></i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b><br> </p><p>Durante, K. M., Griskevicius, V., Cantú, S. M., & Simpson, J. A. (in press). Money, status, and the ovulatory cycle. <span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of Marketing Research</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jmr.11.0327">Read summary</a></p><p>Fink, B. (2014). Female physical characteristics and intra-sexual competition in women. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 58</span>, 138-141. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.015">Read summary</a></p><p>Muñoz-Reyes, J. A., Pita, M., Arjona, M., Sanchez-Pages, S., & Turiegano, E. (in press). Who is the fairest of them all? The independent effect of attractive features and self-perceived attractiveness on cooperation among women. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.11.005">Read summary</a></p><p>Piccoli, V., Foroni, F., & Carnaghi, A. (2013). Comparing group dehumanization and intra-sexual competition among normally ovulating women and hormonal contraceptive users. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39</span>(12), 1600-1609. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167213499025">Read summary</a></p><p>Vaillancourt, T. (2013). Do human females use indirect aggression as an intrasexual competition strategy? <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 368</span>, 20130080. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0080">Read summary</a></p>
