This research found that while both women and men have more favorable views of women, women's in-group biases were 4.5 times stronger than those of men. And only women (not men) showed cognitive balance among in-group bias, identity, and self-esteem, revealing that men lack a mechanism that bolsters automatic preference for their own gender.
Men do have in-group bias, it's just not based simply on gender, it's based on shared male experiences. Brothers in arms, gang members, men's clubs, sports teams, etc.
In-group bias is a survival instinct that increases the more dire the circumstances are, and it comes is many forms.
It's just a theory, but one reason women may exhibit more in-group bias based on gender is because society is constantly telling them that women (as a group) are oppressed and that men (as a group) are the enemy. No doubt this could trigger the survival instinct in women who are too oblivious to know any better. Women are easily influenced and manipulated, so without a strong, positive male influence in their lives, it's very easy for women to buy into this nonsense.
But that's not male in-group bias, and so it won't affect men's judgements in court.
But the female in-group bias does affect it, because it applies to all females, regardless of their shared experiences or connections.
Women will blindly take the side of other random women that they don't even know. Men never do that.
It's just a theory, but one reason women may exhibit more in-group bias based on gender is because society is constantly telling them that women (as a group) are oppressed and that men (as a group) are the enemy.
That can't be true, because women have had in-group bias for many thousands of years, and this idea that "women are oppressed and men are the enemy" happened very recently, not long enough for evolution to occur.
Forget that, their in-group bias disqualifies them without resorting to stereotypes that they will whine about.
To be fair, everyone has some degree of in-group bias.
But statistically, women have 4.5 times more in-group bias than men. In fact, men have almost no in-group bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
Men do have in-group bias, it's just not based simply on gender, it's based on shared male experiences. Brothers in arms, gang members, men's clubs, sports teams, etc.
In-group bias is a survival instinct that increases the more dire the circumstances are, and it comes is many forms.
It's just a theory, but one reason women may exhibit more in-group bias based on gender is because society is constantly telling them that women (as a group) are oppressed and that men (as a group) are the enemy. No doubt this could trigger the survival instinct in women who are too oblivious to know any better. Women are easily influenced and manipulated, so without a strong, positive male influence in their lives, it's very easy for women to buy into this nonsense.
But that's not male in-group bias, and so it won't affect men's judgements in court.
But the female in-group bias does affect it, because it applies to all females, regardless of their shared experiences or connections.
Women will blindly take the side of other random women that they don't even know. Men never do that.
That can't be true, because women have had in-group bias for many thousands of years, and this idea that "women are oppressed and men are the enemy" happened very recently, not long enough for evolution to occur.