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Un reciente estudio de la Universidad de Minnesota titulado \u00abLas consecuencias financieras de haber demasiados hombres\u00bb demuestra que el comportamiento econ\u00f3mico de los hombres puede verse influido por una variable no estudiada hasta el momento: la falta de mujeres. El deseo biol\u00f3gico de buscar pareja modifica la conducta financiera de los hombres.<\/p>\n
Lo que se puede ver en otros animales es que cuando las hembras escasean, los machos se vuelven m\u00e1s competitivos; compiten m\u00e1s para acceder a una pareja.<\/p>\n
\u00bfC\u00f3mo competimos los humanos para conseguir pareja? Lo que se observa en distintas culturas es que los hombres a menudo lo hacen a trav\u00e9s del dinero, del estatus y de objetos.<\/p>\n
En un experimento, los participantes del estudio leyeron art\u00edculos geogr\u00e1ficos que describ\u00edan una poblaci\u00f3n con m\u00e1s hombres o con m\u00e1s mujeres. Despu\u00e9s se les preguntaba cuanto dinero ahorrar\u00edan o pedir\u00edan prestado al mes si vivieran en esa zona. Cuando los hombres cre\u00edan que escaseaban las mujeres, ahorraron un 42% menos y pidieron prestado un 84% m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n
En el segundo experimento vieron una secuencia de fotos de hombres y mujeres y despu\u00e9s se les pidi\u00f3 que escogieran entre recibir $20 ma\u00f1ana o $30 dentro de un mes. Cuando hab\u00eda menos mujeres en la secuencia de fotos, los hombres prefirieron el dinero inmediato.<\/p>\n
Aunque la proporci\u00f3n de hombres y mujeres no altera el comportamiento econ\u00f3mico de las mujeres, si cambia las expectativas de estas y se vuelven m\u00e1s exigentes. Despu\u00e9s de leer que hay m\u00e1s hombres, las mujeres esperan que los hombres gasten m\u00e1s dinero en una cena, un regalo de San Valent\u00edn o un anillo de compromiso.<\/p>\n
Cuando hay escasez de mujeres, \u00e9stas sienten que los hombres deben cambiar su forma de cortejarlas.<\/p>\n
Adem\u00e1s de realizar el estudio, los investigadores revisaron documentos sobre 120 ciudades de EE.UU. que resultaron consistentes son sus hip\u00f3tesis. En ciudades con m\u00e1s solteros, la proporci\u00f3n de tarjetas de cr\u00e9dito era mayor y ten\u00edan unos niveles de deuda superiores. En dos ciudades separadas por 100 millas, la diferencia era palpable. Una ten\u00eda una tasa de 1.18 hombres por cada mujer frente a 0,78 de la otra ciudad. La deuda media de un consumidor de la primera era 3.479$ mayor.<\/p>\n
Una de las problem\u00e1ticas implicaciones de la desproporci\u00f3n de sexos para el mundo en general es que se trata de algo m\u00e1s que de dinero.<\/p>\n
*Nota de umn.edu
\nA Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less<\/p>\n
The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research from the University of Minnesota\u2019s Carlson School of Management.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive. They compete more for access to mates,\u201d says Vladas Griskevicius, an assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School and lead author of the study. \u201cHow do humans compete for access to mates? What you find across cultures is that men often do it through money, through status and through products.\u201d<\/p>\n
To test their theory that the sex ratio affects economic decisions, the researchers had participants read news articles that described their local population as having more men or more women. They were then asked to indicate how much money they would save each month from a paycheck, as well as how much they would borrow with credit cards for immediate expenditures. When led to believe women were scarce, the savings rates for men decreased by 42 percent. Men were also willing to borrow 84 percent more money each month.<\/p>\n
In another study, participants saw photo arrays of men and women that had more men, more women, or were neutral. After looking at the photographs, participants were asked to choose between receiving some money tomorrow or a larger amount in a month. When women were scarce in the photos, men were much more likely to take an immediate $20 rather than wait for $30 in a month.<\/p>\n
According to Griskevicius, participants were unaware that sex ratios were having any effect on their behavior. Merely seeing more men than women automatically led men to simply be more impulsive and want to save less while borrowing more to spend on immediate purchases.<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomics tells us that humans make decisions by carefully thinking through our choices; that we\u2019re not like animals,\u201d he says. \u201cIt turns out we have a lot in common with other animals. Some of our behaviors are much more reflexive and subconscious. We see that there are more men than women in our environment and it automatically changes our desires, our behaviors, and our entire psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Financial Consequences of Too Many Men: Sex Ratio Effects on Savings, Borrowing, and Spending\u201d will be published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Co-authors of the study include Joshua Tybur (VU University Amsterdam), Joshua M. Ackerman (M.I.T.), Andrew Delton and Theresa Robertson (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Andrew E. White (Arizona State University).<\/p>\n
Sex Ratios Affect Expectations of Women<\/p>\n
While sex ratios do not influence the financial choices women make, they do shape women\u2019s expectations of how men should spend their money when courting. After reading a news article informing women that there are more men than women, women expected men to spend more on dinner dates, Valentine\u2019s gifts, and engagement rings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen there\u2019s a scarcity of women, women felt men should go out of their way to court them,\u201d adds Griskevicius.<\/p>\n
In a male-biased environment, men also expected they would need to spend more in their mating efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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