This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Angourie Rice in a scene from 'Mean Girls.'
A new study from the University of Ottawa is diving into neural and behavioral responses to mean girls in young women. It found that women are more likely to be hurt by rejection from those they see as less attractive.Actress Angourie Rice is seen here in a scene from the 2024 film Mean Girls. A new study from the University of Ottawa has delved into the 'mean girl' stereotype — and the lead researcher says it sheds light on the complexity of women's social interactions.
That led Vaillancourt and her team to suspect participants in her latest study would be more "hurt" by rejection from these kinds of women — akin to the dynamics played out in popular films like"We went in thinking that it would be attractive, unfriendly women that would elicit the greater pain reaction," she told CBC Radio'slast week. "From an evolutionary perspective, these are the women that probably could have inflicted more harm on us.
When the participants didn't get the ball passed to them, an electroencephalography device registered a spike in their brain waves — suggesting they felt what Vaillancourt described as "social pain."The participants were asked to rate the other players in terms of friendliness and attractiveness, and the amount of pain they felt varied based upon how pretty they considered their fellow players' photos to be.
Vaillancourt said the hurt participants felt may have been due to them being "offended" over rejection by women they thought were less attractive than them.
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