April 25 Flashcards
Rape is a __________ _________ with respect to fitness maximization
reproductive crime
The costs of rape
cannot make judicious mate choice, father will not provide for child or mother, abandonment by committed partner, unable to develop future relationship (child)
The two views of rape
crime of violence, crime of passion
Crime of violence
rape –> sex=incidental –> violence
Crime of passion
rape –> violence=incidental –> sex
______% of sex involves penile/vaginal intercourse
84
In ____ of cases, serious physical injury is sustained and _____ are killed
4.6%, < .1%
Mapping onto crime of violence (use percentages)
rape –> sex=incidental(84%) –> violence 4.6% (exception rather than majority)
Mapping onto crime of passion (use percentages)
rape –> violence=incidental (4.6%) –> sex (84%)
Rape reports of injury are ________. If the victim sustains physical injury, the reports _______.
inflated, increase
Evolved Male Conditional Mating Strategies
honest courtship, dishonest courtship, rape
males enter into lifetime committed relationship to help reproductive interest
honest courtship
males fake good intentions for the purpose of gaining sexual favors (ex: women faking orgasms, man takes relationship)
dishonest courtship
The hypothetical reproductive value of honest courtship ______ , dishonest courtship _____ and rape _____ (relational value is more important than actual value)
3.0, .5, .1
Males that “mix and match” across all three conditional mating strategies have a ______________
significant reproductive advantage
Evidence for Hard-wired conditional male mating strategies
rape is universal, rape is a recurrent feature of recorded human history, 2/3 of college males indicate that they would consider rape (if the likelihood of apprehension, retribution, victim resistance dropped to 0), rape proclivity
The probability of rape increases when the availability of consensual sex _________
decreases
The probability of rape increases when the reproductive costs ________
increases
The magnitude of emotional trauma experienced by rape victims is inversely proportional to the magnitude of the _______________
physical trauma
Rape is also inversely proportional to the opportunity for ______________
sexual gratification in the heterosexual domain
Crimes of violence against females most often happen to those who are around age _____. This has implications for their fertility
25
Probability of rape increases as a function of ___________ _________
physical attractiveness