[psysec] Sex-withholding manipulation research

[Gadi Evron]

Sarah Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org 
> <mailto:ge at linuxbox.org>> wrote:
> 
>     There's new Israeli research from the Ariel University Center of
>     Samaria which claims sex-withholding manipulation is done by the
>     weaker partner in a relationship as a persuasion technique.
> 
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> I fear for the state of research if this is really 'new' to these 
> researchers.  Triangulation is not introduced by the paper - its a 
> concept every first year psychology student is familiar with. Maybe its 
> this migraine (yep, still got it), or maybe I'm just in a bad mood..but 
> as I read this article, all I could think was "oh they found out men are 
> less likely to withhold sex". Gee. Do you think?

A friend of mine commented that if it is only women who do this, isn't 
calling those who do it the "weaker sex" kind of a bad way of going 
about it? He thinks they should have called it "women use sexual 
manipulation".