Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.

This week’s show explains why advice to “lean in” is totally unrealistic and other ways evolved male/female sex differences shape who we are.

My guest this week is psychology professor Dr. Joyce Benenson, discussing her fantastic new book, “Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes.” 

This is really solid science that will open your eyes to so much about male and female behavior, including male-male and female-female friendships and competition, and will give you some much-needed realism you can use to inform how you relate socially and at work.

Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. PT, 10-11 p.m. ET, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.

Please buy my book, the science-based and funny “Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck.” It helps support the work I put into this show. 

This article appears in Jan 11-18, 2017.

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Dr. Joyce Benenson: How the evolution of male warriors/female worriers drives us

by Magdalena Bokowa, The Source - Bend, Oregon
January 18, 2017

<h1>Dr. Joyce Benenson: How the evolution of male warriors/female worriers drives us</h1> <p class="byline">by Magdalena Bokowa, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />January 18, 2017</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p> Welcome to Amy Alkon's <em>HumanLab: The Science Between Us, </em>a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. </p> <p> This week's show explains why advice to "lean in" is totally unrealistic and other ways evolved male/female sex differences shape who we are. </p> <p> My guest this week is psychology professor&nbsp;Dr. Joyce Benenson, discussing her fantastic&nbsp;new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/1yTs4di" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-tracker-category="EpisodeOutboundLink" data-tracker-action="http://amzn.to/1yTs4di" data-tracker-label="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2017/01/09/dr-joyce-benenson-how-the-evolution-of-male-warriorsfemale-worriers-drives-us">"Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes."</a>&nbsp; </p> <p> This is really solid science that will open your eyes to so much about male and female behavior, including male-male&nbsp;and female-female friendships and competition, and will give you some much-needed realism you can use to inform how you relate socially and at work. </p> <p> Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. PT, 10-11 p.m. ET, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. </p> <p> Please buy my book, the science-based and funny <a href="http://amzn.to/1fFtWFy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-tracker-category="EpisodeOutboundLink" data-tracker-action="http://amzn.to/1fFtWFy" data-tracker-label="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2017/01/09/dr-joyce-benenson-how-the-evolution-of-male-warriorsfemale-worriers-drives-us">"Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck."</a>&nbsp;It helps support&nbsp;the work I put into this show.&nbsp; </p> <div id="mvt-episode-player"></div> <div class="addthis_recommended_horizontal"></div> <p> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dr-joyce-benenson-how-the-evolution-of-male-warriors-female-worriers-drives-us-2776455/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=22539&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dr-joyce-benenson-how-the-evolution-of-male-warriors-female-worriers-drives-us-2776455/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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