108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competition

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🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer about the research behind their new book Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both. “A lot of what we call gender differences are really just power differences in disguise. The big irony is that women and men get affected by power in very similar ways yet because women have less power in society, there’s a constraint on their ability to act with that power.”http://patreon.com/inquiringmindsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:15.8	So we all know by now that there is a posity of women working in STEM field, science,
1:21.1	technology, engineering, and math.
1:23.3	And one of the things that has always puzzled me about this problem is that even when you do have a woman working in STEM and you come on as a woman and in, you know, joining a predominantly male team, often it feels as if it's the woman that is the hardest to work with, the one that seems to compete with you as opposed to cooperate.
1:46.8	So when I heard about a new book by economists Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer called
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