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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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Female-coerced monogamy in burying beetles

Anne-Katrin Eggert, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1995 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that females physically interfere with male polygynous signaling using various behavioral tactics leads to a significant decrease in the amount of time that males spend signaling, according to females a means by which to impose monogamy on their mates.
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Courting strategies and conflicts in a monogamous, biparental termite

Janet S. Shellman-Reeve
- 22 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that both courting males and females are choosy in the wood–dwelling, biparental termite Zootermopsis nevadensis, and sex differences both in the method of mate rejection and in the mate–choice criteria are presented.
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Elevated Sexual Activity in Violent Marriages: Hypersexuality or Sexual Extortion?

Alfred DeMaris
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: The sexual extortion hypothesis is that male violence creates a climate of fear in which women are coerced into having sex more often than they would otherwise assent to as mentioned in this paper, and when husbands have been violent, a greater frequency of sexual activity predicts greater depressive symptomatology among wives.
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Male materetention behaviors vary with risk of partner infidelity and sperm competition

Valerie G. Starratt, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
TL;DR: New evidence is provided that men at greater risk of partner infidelity and sperm competition more frequently perform a variety of mate retention behaviors, such as calling unexpectedly to check up on their partners, monopolizing their partners’ time when around other men, and threatening other men who show an interest in their partners.
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Beyond monogamy: territory quality influences sexual advertisement in male burying beetles

Stephen T. Trumbo, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1994 - 
TL;DR: Male N. defodiens thus assess both resource quality and number of mates when deciding whether to emit pheromone, and this decision appears to agree with the reproductive interests of males but not necessarily that of resident females.
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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.