Ev Explanations For Human Agg Eg. Jealousy And Infidelity

Question 1

AO1

Ev advantages 
Sexual coercion - Camilleri 
Male retention strategies 
Uxorocide
Women

Answer 1

Advantages - acquire and protect resources, gain status, ensure partner is faithful - continuation of genes and prevents cuckoldry

Coercion - Camilleri - partners more likely to use if partner has been unfaithful in the past - ensures paternal certainty and decreases cuckoldry chance

Retention strategy - enhances reproduction - range from vigilant to violent intra sexual threats

Uxorocide - decreases rep fitness but ensures no cuckoldry and allows him o move onto new partner who is less likely to cheat due to rep and rivals less likely to try

Women - costs>benefits - if offsprings survival is threatened they may use agg to compete for resources - but generally need partner resources to survive

Question 2

AO2

Gender bias - Telson
Ev reductionist - Buss & Shackleford
RWA
Tallieu & Brownridge
Survey collection

Answer 2

GB - Telson - examined 2060 murders in US, found women 2x more likely to murder out of jealousy

ER - Buss and Shackleford - doesn’t account for why people react in different ways - individual differences key and not explored

RWA - particular tactics of male retention etc can be identified early on which can alert friends and family to danger signs

T&B - women abused when preg more likely to be carrying rivals baby or even baby from previous rel

Surveys - social desirability bias