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Published online 18 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040216-11
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Caustic comments get girls a date
Women scorn each other at certain times of the month in fight for men.
We're all guilty of making a snide comment about someone's appearance at one time or another. But a new study hints that women may instinctively use catty comments as a weapon in the dating game.
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