evolutionary explanations for aggression and group display
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- Created on: 02-01-13 10:27
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- Evolution and human aggression
- evolutionary explanations
- infidelity
- A01 - May lead to sexual coercion or ****, violence toward pregnant partners and uxoricide.
- A02 - Burch & Gallup, double frequent violence to partners pregnant with another man's baby.
- A02/AID - Studies mainly focus on men's mate retention strategies but females also use them.
- A02 - Canerelli found a link between infidelity and partner violence in males but not females - cuckoldry.
- Jealousy
- - men experience sexual jealousy due to paternal uncertainty - sexual jealousy deters mate from infidelity and cuckoldry -use of mate retention strategies e.g. direct guarding and negative inducements.
- Practical applications - tactics of mate retention can be an early indicator of partner violence.
- A02 - Shackelford et al - shows support for mate retention strategies and violence.
- AID - however he used self report techniques and so has social desirabillity bias.
- infidelity
- group displays
- sports
- A01 - Xenophobia - suspicion and fear of strangers favoured by natural selection
- A02 - Neave & Wolfson - having a home crowd present increased players testosterone.
- A02 - Moore & Brylinsky - challenge idea of playing in front of home crowd posing an advantage.
- warfare
- A01 - aggressive males are more attractive to females and have more sexual partners, - status and acceptance by other males, - show commitment, - minimise defeat
- A02 - Palmer and Tilley - male youth street gang members have more sexual partners.
- A02 - The idea that war emerged as a responce to a change in lifestyle from nomadic to settled and so is not genetic.
- A02 - Watson suggests that because humans torture their victims in war, aggression may be more a consequence of deindividuationthan evolutionary adaptations.
- sports
- evolutionary explanations
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