Tend and befriend behavior is characteristic mostly of women, who when faced with a stressful situation, tend to "befriend" their social group. This theory is biologically hypothesized due be a result of natural selection, thus claiming that female camaraderie and companionship during times of stress must have been favorable for her "fitness and reproduction". While natural selection favored women who seeked familiar people during stress, males have been characterisezed by a different behavior, fight of flight. The biological explanation for aggressive (fight) or flighty tendencies assumes that this behavior would aid in male fitness and reproduction. A study showed that women, after a long day at work, come home to be more nurturing to their offspring, whereas men withdraw from family life. This problem was most significant before the 1920 prohibition of alcohol. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, details the stressful climate of the meat packing district in working class America, and how men would seek refuge from the arduous tasks of work in bars and strip clubs instead of going home to their wife and kids.
Nadia Razani
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