Evolutionary Explanations of Aggression including Infidelity and Jealousy

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1. What study found that 55% of battered wives reported jealousy based on suspicion and fear as the main reason for their partner's violence?

  • Daly and Wilson
  • Dobash and Dobash
  • Miller
  • Daly et al.
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2. Which study stated that men have evolved to prevent adultery as to prevent cuckcoldry (raising another man's child) so they don't waste their resources?

  • Nelson
  • Buss
  • Daly and Wilson
  • Dobash and Dobash

3. Who suggested that when men lack resources they use violence as a way of preventing infidelity?

  • Felson
  • Schackelefield
  • Daly and Wilson
  • Buss (2007)

4. Which study found that sexual violence was strongly linked with perceived risk of infidelity?

  • Miller
  • Camilleri
  • Dobash and Dobash

5. What did Felson find?

  • 55% of battered wives reported jealousy based on suspicion and fear as the main reason for their partner's violence
  • Out of 2060 murders, women were twice as likely to murder out of jealousy than men
  • Sexual jealousy was the main motivator in domestic killings

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