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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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‘No condom, no sex’: Easy to say, but not possible for all South African women

Johanna E. Maree
- 01 Nov 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether women living in Tshwane, South Africa, were able to protect themselves against cervical cancer by insisting on condom use using a convenience snowball sampling method and find that women lacked knowledge of cervical cancer and did not associate condom use with self-protection against this disease.
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Explanatory Theories of Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetration: A Systematic Review:

Laurie M. Graham, +3 more
- 10 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: This study is the first systematic review of theories employed to explain why someone might kill their intimate partner, using rigorous methods to locate and synthesize literature that described explanatory theories of IPH perpetration.
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Intragroup social dynamics vary with the presence of neighbors in a cooperatively breeding fish.

Jennifer K. Hellmann, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2019 - 
TL;DR: Some of the first empirical insights are provided into the extent to which intragroup behavioral networks are mediated by intergroup interactions and the broader social context, suggesting that the presence of neighbors does not alter behaviors associated with promoting group cohesion.
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The gender wage gap, weather, and intimate partner violence

Alexander Henke, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2020 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify temperature-based violence as a type of expressive violence and find new evidence that a woman's labor market opportunities shield her from IPV, providing evidence that bargaining power best protects women against expressive violence.
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New Horizons in the Evolutionary Science of the Human Family

Gregory Gorelik, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that human cultural trends and morals can ultimately be grounded on an evolutionary foundation: not only do human laws and institutions reflect group-level manifestations of gene- level cooperative adaptations, but also they may reflect gene-level manipulative adaptations.
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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.