Friday, January 19, 2018

Why women like to shop

For all the men who sit and wait while their wives spend what seems to be hours shopping for something simple, there is a scientific explanation:

It's in our genes. 100 thousand years of hunter/gatherer living made the sexes evolve this way.

the men hunted (mainly large animals) but women, who often were either pregnant or had a babe at the bosom, gathered stuff... 

From Improbable Research:



Along with Dreyson Lee Byker, Dr. Kruger published a paper in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 2009, 3(4): 328-342. ‘Evolved foraging psychology underlies sex differences in shoping [sic] experiences and behaviors’ which explained that :

“For the most part, contemporary stereotypes of women in modern industrial countries perceive women as enjoying shopping more than men. Our research provides evidence that this popular stereotype exists because most shopping activities have a greater similarity to women’s traditional activities of foraging and gathering than they do to men’s traditional activity of hunting. The results of our study show that shopping has significantly more in common with gathering than it does with hunting.”

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