Evolutionary Theory Of Agression

Evolutionary Theory Of Agression

1. Infedelity/ Sexual jelousy

   • Buss and Daley; to prevent cuckoldery men use retention tactics
   • mate retention tactics
     • negative inducments
       • lower self esteem
     • direct guarding
       • restricting her movements

2. Murder

   • Buss and Duntly : it was adaptive to protect status, land and offspring
   • the majority of murderers and victims are men buss and shakelford
   • Dally and Wilson; murder happens due to lack of resorces, loss of status and sexual jelousy. metanalysis of same sex killings 92% killing were male-male involving love triangles

3. AO2

   • Dobash and Dobash jelous husbands give threats
   • shakelford - men with little resorces resort to violence to keep a partner
   • Wilson - women 2x more likely to be abused if their partner minds them interacting with men

4. IDA

   • gender
     • women also use retention tactics, research is androcentric
   • culture
     • yanonomi tribe - the more people theyve killed the more wives and children they have