Posted on 10/10/2012 1:34:08 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Women should use their "feminine charm" rather than trying to appear tough when negotiating with men if they want to secure the best deal, scientists claim.
The researchers from UC Berkeley's Haas Business School and colleagues from University College London questioned 100 volunteers about how much they rely on charm when negotiating, and asked their partners how effective they were at negotiating.
To gain the most positive results women should avoid making overt sexual advances but appear friendly, authentic and interested in the man they are dealing with, researchers advised.....
....They found that women who said they flirted more were judged by their partners to be better negotiators, while men who said they used more charm were not seen as having any advantage....
....In a second experiment, the volunteers were told to imagine they were selling a car worth $1,200 (£750) and asked how much they would ask for it.
Male sellers were more likely to knock $100 (£60) off the selling price for the flirtatious buyer than the serious one, while female car sellers were unmoved by the behaviour, the study found.
The merits of flirting have previously been extolled by Madeline Albright, the first woman to become US Secretary of State, who later admitted to flirting in discussions with male foreign government leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Rome on 24 March, 1998 for talks on the Kosovo crisis,
is greeted by Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini.
How non feminist of her !
HORRORS
Hard up that neck alone should kill any deal!
Nothing like some Madeleine Albright hip to nudge you in the right direction.
Sorry, but when I want smart, accomplished females, I’ll take Jean Kirkpatrick or Contoleeza Rice. Madeline Albright is - shall I say - slightly better than the Hillabeast, but then again, that’s not saying much.
I think I’m goingto have nightmares thinking about Madeleine Albright flirting. I mean, that’s right in Stephen King novel territory.
Yeah - Mad Maddy was quite the charmer!
“The merits of flirting have previously been extolled by Madeline Albright”
MADELINE ALBRIGHT???!!!
She is as alluring as a TOAD.
Study is garbage. If you want to know how effective a person is at negotiating, you have to watch him or her in the process of bringing a hostile negotiation to a successful conclusion. If you want to determine the extent of gender-specific appeals, you’d have to be filming the participants, preferably without their knowledge.
Testimony from the individual and her “partner” is meaningless. They will say what the researcher wants to hear, and practically everyone considers himself a great negotiator, communicator, etc.
Heh. I remember reading — back during the Clinton horror — that we had a Secretary of State who looked like a cleaning woman in a Red Roof Inn.
The word was that, if she reached the four-button crisis level, she would start lifting her skirt...
Sad, really...
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