Jealously And Infidelity Flashcards
Why is aggression thought to be more common behaviour in males than females
Psychologists proposed the idea that males have problems with infidelity and paternity uncertainty
What has paternity uncertainty and infidelity lead to?
An adaptive response of male jealousy and
Jealous aggression
What did a BBC 2006 survey find?
They found that 1 in 10 women admit bring unfaithful to their partners
What have some evolutionary psychologists said about the reason of male aggression?
That it may have evolved as a way of deterring female infidelity and protects their genetic line, Serving the purpose of frightening other males and partners
Dell 1984
17% of all murders in the UK could be related to sexual jealously
What else did dell report?
He also reported that in murders relating to love triangles 92% of murders where male on male 8% were female on female
What does the statistics from dell 1984 show?
It shows how males are more likely to react with lethal violence as a result of infidelity
What did shackleford et al 2006
He found that aggression by men towards women is positively correlated with two mate retention strategies.
What are the two mate retention strategies?
Intersexual negative inducements
Direct guarding
What is an example of intersexual negative inducement?
Shouting at her for looking at or talking to another male
What is an example of direct guarding
Monopolising her home at a party
Apartment from mate retention strategies what else did shackleford find?
They also found that men who used emotional manipulation were more prong go use violence in their relationship.
What was a weakness to the shackleford study?
It’s a correlational study
Who should emotional infidelity effect more?
Females
Males are more concerned by physical rather than emotional infidelity true or false?
True
