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Sex at Work

April 2, 2008 · 1 Comment

Men are often praised for losing their cool in the workplace, but everyone else can’t show anger without losing the respect of their peers, according to three studies by Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll and Eric Uhlmann.

And to mitigate this damage, they must to explain why they were upset. But it doesn’t bode well for men to explain why they were angered.

I wonder if the study from a former Hillary Clinton Congressional Fellow (Uhlmann) considered race and other social factors in their analysis.

Of course, white men are rational and everyone else should be presumed emotionally liable until proven otherwise. And yet, when a man explains himself, his peers lose a little of their credence in his reasoning ability. Perhaps, his actions are a little less justifiable - he is used to getting his way without needing to explain himself.

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