dvolutionery explantions of agression

Question 1

evolutionary explanations

Answer 1

account of changes in species over millions of years
characteristics than enhance survival or reproduction of the naturally selected

Question 2

secual competition

Answer 2

men needed to compete for females
if agression was successful against others, more likely to get mate and pass on agressive gene

Question 3

research for sexual competition

Answer 3

puts who suggests that male traits show completion between ancestral males e.g males having 75% more muscle mass then females, agressive and thicker jawline

Question 4

secual jealousy

Answer 4

jealousy high in males due to paternal uncertainty leading to cuckoldy-where father thinks he brought up own child
evolutionary disadvantageous as father wasting resources on what should have been used on own offspring

Question 5

male retention strategies

Answer 5

direct guarding-insisting to know where partner is and who with

negative indulcements-threatening suicide to prevent infidelity

Question 6

wilson et al

Answer 6

asked women if agreed with stratements on male retention strategies
those who agreed were twice as likely to have suffered physical violence in past relationships. of these 73 percent needed medical attention and 53 feared for their lives

Question 7

shackelford

Answer 7

to study IPV ( intimate partner violence) in heterosexual couples

used 107 couples who had been married less then a year
complete different questions tied
males completing male retention inventory and women the spouse influence report (SIR)

postive correlation between men reported male retention behaviour and women who reported pbsgcial violence
showed that retention behaviours are reliable to predict husband violence against wives