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Are Men or Women Bigger Gold Diggers? Science Finally Has an Answer.
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Are Men or Women Bigger Gold Diggers? Science Finally Has an Answer.

VICE·Ashley Fike·about 1 month ago
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Kanye West and Jamie Foxx wrote the definitive gold digger anthem back in 2005, and for the last two decades, the cultural assumption has largely held: women chase rich men, men get played, everybody loses. A new study out of Vienna would like to challenge that narrative. Researchers at the Behavioral and Social Sciences Institute, led by psychologist Lennart Freyth, published findings this year confirming what many people have probably suspected. Videos by VICE “Gold digging, often stereotyped as female behavior, is in fact not limited to women,” the study authors wrote. The team even cited West and Foxx’s track directly in their analysis, pulling the lyric “she takes my money when I’m in need” to outline what they describe as the three core public assumptions about gold diggers: that they exploit money, avoid broke partners, and are always women. Two out of three, it turns out, have held up. The third one didn’t.…

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