Conflict Flashcards
Who is more likely to commit homicide out of mental women
Men
What is conflict??
Not just fighting, but it could be arguing, indirect and direct
What are examples of conglict in animals?
Intersexual conflict between male, deer, competing for a female, deer, attention and lions and hyenas as hyenas. Try to take the kit from lions.
What are reasons for conflict?
- Resources
- Mates
- Life (predator/prey)
What are reasons for conflicting humans?
-  keeping a mate
- Sexual access such as sexual and intersexual
- Social access such as reputation
- Being the favourite sibling (parenting and konship and altruism)
What are some tactics used to keep a mate?
Direct aggression, such as threats to make or competition or indirect aggression, like damaging property or reputation
What is parental versus offspring conflict?
 - Again about resources
- Infanticide
- step, parents and killings 
What causes complex between male and female?
- Parental uncertainty
Describe male aggression in relation to conflict
 I say, it’s great variation in male, reproductive fitness, males have greater incentive for intersexual competition
 they tend to produce less and have more aggression
Give an example of a study, depicting, six differences in conflict
 males were more likely than females to have aggressive fantasies, physical aggression and willingness to shock in experimental settings
Sizes were medium to large, which is hard to find usually
Men were also more likely to commit homicide against their partners, and even in same-sex couples, this was still similar
What other reason do men fight and engage in conflict for Eid from sexual competition?
Reputation such as social status as it still links to female choice and resources
What are further implications of men’s reputation in conflict?
- Young men feel the need to have high reputation because they’re trying to prove themselves -  young male syndrome predicts that young men more likely to engage in waking competitive and aggressive behaviour which can cause injuries, but they do this to show off -
- intersexual competition and reputation have overlap
What are the two exceptions for when men are not more aggressive than women?
- Indirect aggression.
- Intimate relationships.
Describe indirect aggression?
Indirect separation is behaviour that is intended to hurt others by damaging the relationships such as gossiping and harming reputation, name cslling.
Girls tend to do this more when they are younger than boys, but as we grow older, the gender differences gap lesson because indirect aggression is more socially acceptable
Describe this place aggression
B D,HI is a measure of indirect and this place aggression, which shows sex differences across studies with adult females reporting higher levels, such as a person throwing an animal object rather than actually throwing it at their target person they’re angry at
