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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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Sexual conflict: Evolutionary insights into feminism and the "battle of the sexes."

David M. Buss
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Male mate retention mediates the relationship between female sexual infidelity and female-directed violence

Farnaz Kaighobadi, +3 more
- 01 Apr 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between female sexual infidelity and men's partner-directed violence and whether men's direct guarding mate retention behaviors mediates the relationships between accusations of female infidelity, and found that women's reports of direct guarding partially mediated the same relationship.
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Wife Killings Committed in the Context of a Lovers Triangle

Todd K. Shackelford, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2003 - 
TL;DR: The killing of women by their husbands poses an enigma for social scientists as mentioned in this paper, and a variety of hypotheses have been offered to explain this puzzling pattern, including sheer proximity and opportunity, epiphenomenal by-products of a male psychology designed for coercive control of women, and evolved mate-killing mechanisms.
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A comparison of U.S. and Canadian findings on Uxoricide risk for women with children sired by previous partners

Victoria E. Brewer, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1999 - 
TL;DR: Analysis of Houston, Texas during 1985 to 1994 reveals that families including minor step-children represented less than 20% of the city's two-parent households at large; yet 48% of all uxoricides were of women with coresident minor children from previous partners, lending strong support to evolutionary psychological theories of homicide.
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The sexuality of women in physically abusive marriages: a comparative study.

Carol Apt, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
TL;DR: The physically abused women reported significantly lower levels of intimacy and compatibility in their marriages and were found to evince a more traditional sex-role ideology, a greater negative or erotophobic disposition toward sex, and a stronger avoidance of sex than did nonabused women.
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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.