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Women take risks to help others to stay alive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2022

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Alice H. Eagly*
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Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA eagly@northwestern.edu https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/profiles/alice-eagly.html
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Abstract

Evidence that women voluntarily expose themselves to some threats more than men do challenges the generalizability of the claim that women exceed men in self-protective responses. Examples include women's higher rates of living organ donation and rescuing Jews during the holocaust. In general, women's efforts to keep other people alive can take precedence over their efforts to protect themselves.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e135
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