Chapter 11: conflict between the sexes

Question 1

strategic interference theory

Answer 1

blocking the strategies and violating the desires of someone else

occurs when one person employs a particular strategy to achieve a goal and another person blocks the successful enactment of that strategy

Question 2

strategic interference theory 2 postulates

Answer 2

predicted to occur whenever members of one sex violate the desires of members of the opposite sex

negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, rage, and distress represent evolved solutions to the problems of strategic interference

Question 3

the biggest conflict between men and women

Answer 3

conflict about the occurrence and timing of sex

cognitive biases in sexual mind reading

conflict over sexual access and sexual withholding

jealous conflict

Question 4

deception about commitment

Answer 4

men report intentionally deceiving women about emotional commitment

Question 5

commitment skepticism bias

Answer 5

women have evolved an inferential bias designed to underestimate men’s actual level of romantic commitment to her early in courtship