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Punishment, proprietariness, and paternity : Men's violence against women from an evolutionary perspective

Aaron T. Goetz, +4 more
- 01 Nov 2008 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 6, pp 481-489
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In this article, the authors use an evolutionary perspective to examine intimate partner violence, focusing on men's violence against women, and they argue that the recurring adaptive problem of paternity uncertainty plays a central role in domestic violence, and physical violence functions to punish and deter female sexual infidelity.
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This article is published in Aggression and Violent Behavior.The article was published on 2008-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 72 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Domestic violence & Sexual violence.

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From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men's Partner-Directed Violence

Farnaz Kaighobadi, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of paternity uncertainty is hypothesized to have selected for the emotion of male sexual jealousy, which in turn motivates men's nonviolent and violent mate retention behaviors.
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Types of Intimate Partner Homicides Committed by Women Self-Defense, Proxy/Retaliation, and Sexual Proprietariness

Joanne Belknap, +4 more
- 04 Oct 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report findings from 117 closed heterosexual intimate partner homicides (IPH) cases collected by the Denver Metro DVFRC 1991-2009, concluding that IPHs perpetrated by women against men are frequently motivated by self defense.
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Explaining the Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence by Male Perpetrators : Do Attitude, Relationship, and Neighborhood Variables Add to Antisociality?

Grant T. Harris, +2 more
- 11 Feb 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured potential causes of prolonged male violence against female intimate partners in four domains: enduring antisocial traits, perpetrator's attitudes and values, aspects of the relationship, and neighborhood characteristics.
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An Exploratory Study of Honor Crimes in the United States

Brittany E. Hayes, +2 more
- 14 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an open-source search methodology to identify the victim-offender relationship and motivations for honor crimes in the United States, and found that the main motivations for honour crimes were the perpetrator's former partner beginning the process of separation and the westernized behavior of the victim, typically the offender's daughter or step-daughter.
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The roots of intimate partner violence

David S. Chester, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2018 - 
TL;DR: A broad literature that explicates the ultimate and proximate roots of IPV perpetration is reviewed, and theories of aggression are brought to bear in order to articulate the proximal sequence of psychological processes that magnify and constrain IPV.
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In this article, the authors use an evolutionary perspective to examine intimate partner violence, focusing on men ’ s violence against women.