{"id":1534,"date":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/new-study-confirms-women-are-superior-gender\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"new-study-confirms-women-are-superior-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/new-study-confirms-women-are-superior-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Confirms Women Are The Superior Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every woman at some stage of her life has found herself dealing with a guy- it could be your boyfriend, brother or friend- and thinking \u201cwhat is WRONG with him?\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Variations include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he serious right now?\u201d and \u201cHow doesn\u2019t he get it?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Basically: dudes are frustrating, women are better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n  <img data-original=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-183.gif alt=\"gilmore girls GIF\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" \/>\n  <noscript><img src=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-183.gif alt=\"gilmore girls GIF\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" ><\/noscript>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unspoken truth that Women are the superior gender. We\u2019re kind,loving, empathetic, and would do anything for almost anyone (bar ex-boyfriends).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now there\u2019s research to back it all up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right ladies- there\u2019s now an actual study you can refer people (men) to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.uzh.ch\/en\/Press-Releases\/2017\/female-brain-and-prosocial-behavior.html\" target=\"_top\">study comes from the University of Zurich <\/a>and concluded that men&#8217;s brains reward selfish behaviour, whereas women&#8217;s brains reward generosity.<\/p>\n<p>So men tend towards selfishness whereas women are more generous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n  <img data-original=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-184.gif alt=\"Rory Gilmore Nod GIF by Gilmore Girls \" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" \/>\n  <noscript><img src=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-184.gif alt=\"Rory Gilmore Nod GIF by Gilmore Girls \" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" ><\/noscript>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The university ran a series of behavioural experiments that required participants to make decisions about whether or not to share money while neuroscientists analysed their brains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The study found that the striatum (the brain&#8217;s reward centre, which administers a delicious dopamine hit for &#8220;correct&#8221; behaviour) responds much more strongly in women when they make &#8220;prosocial&#8221; decisions than when men do so.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, selfish behaviour triggered a dopamine response in the brains of men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, women get rewarded for kindness, men get rewarded for being arses. Just like in real life!<\/p>\n<p>\n\n  <img data-original=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-185.gif alt=\"This Is Tiring Season 3 GIF by Gilmore Girls \" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" \/>\n  <noscript><img src=https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy-185.gif alt=\"This Is Tiring Season 3 GIF by Gilmore Girls \" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" ><\/noscript>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Alexander Soutschek commented in a press release that the results &#8220;demonstrate that the brains of women and men also process generosity differently at the pharmacological level&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the need for further research, and for the need for neuroscientists to &#8220;take into account gender differences more seriously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If only real life people could do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to just admit is: women are superior beings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Images: Gilmore Girls, Giphy \/ Giphy.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re welcome ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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