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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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Against our will: Men, women, and rape

Eric I.B. Beller
- 01 Jan 1978 - 
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A Critical Examination of Popular Assumptions About the Benefits and Outcomes of Monogamous Relationships

Terri D. Conley, +4 more
- 01 May 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that evidence for the benefits of monogamy relative to other relationship styles is currently lacking, suggesting that, for those who choose it, consensual non-monogamy may be a viable alternative to monogamy.
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Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach (4th ed.).

Donald A. Dewsbury
- 01 Jan 1989 - 
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Can evolutionary principles explain patterns of family violence

John Archer
- 01 Mar 2013 - 
TL;DR: The article's aim is to evaluate the application of the evolutionary principles of kin selection, reproductive value, and resource holding power to the understanding of family violence and concludes that most of the evidence is consistent with evolutionary predictions derived from kin selection and reproductive value.
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Women's aggression

Catharine P. Cross, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2011 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that a more complete understanding of women's aggression requires acknowledging that women's relative restraint with regard to aggression is itself an adaptation; researching in more depth the fear-reducing effects of oxytocin and how these might operate in intimate partnerships; and considering more fully how cultural and biological factors might interact.
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Male interest in visual cues of sperm competition risk

Nicholas Pound
- 01 Nov 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this article, content analyses of pornographic images on World Wide Web sites and of commercial "adult" video releases revealed that depictions of sexual activity involving a female and multiple males are more prevalent those involving a male and multiple females.
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Some correlates of romantic jealousy1

Gregory L. White
- 01 Jun 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined romantic jealousy as a complex of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors resulting from threats to one's self-esteem and/or relationship, and identified a variety of potential correlates of romantic jealousy consistent with this definition.
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Adaptation to Sperm Competition in Humans

Todd K. Shackelford, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2007 - 
TL;DR: Psychological, behavioral, physiological, and anatomical evidence indicates that men have evolved solutions to combat the adaptive problem of sperm competition, but research has only just begun to uncover these adaptations.
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Understanding domestic violence against women: using evolutionary psychology to extend the feminist functional analysis.

Jay Peters, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2002 - 
TL;DR: Results show that rates of domestic violence decrease as women age, and younger men are at greatest risk for perpetrating domestic violence, while younger, reproductive age women incur nearly 10 times the risk of domesticviolence as do older, post-reproductive age women.
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Women with Children Sired by Previous Partners Incur Excess Risk of Uxoricide

Martin Daly, +2 more
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this article, information about uxoricides (killings of wives) in one Canadian city between 1974 and 1995 was extracted from media reports, and women who were mothers of coresident minor children, half had children sired by former partners.
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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.