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psy307Ch10p316
Ch10p316-327
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| in no culture have women been observed | forming coalitions designed to kill humans |
| men are more likely to spontaneously assess | their fighting ability to gauge if it is worthwhile to enter into combat |
| people can gauge a man's, but not a woman's upper body strenth | by looking at photos of a man's upper body or even face |
| upper-body strength judgments and | fighting ability judgments correlate +.97 |
| male war adaptations | higher upper body strength, throwing accuracy, accuracy navigating strange territories, tendency to form same-sex coalitions, fear of cowardly action, excitement at prospect of war |
| evidence for adaptations men have to facilitate warfare | high war and homicide mortality, strong ingroup/outgroup distinctions and bias, more rigidly hierarchical |
| gang members (especially leaders) have more | sexual partners |
| war and homicide killings may | improve reputation which allows wife and lover increase |
| desirable coalition member characteristics | hardworking, intelligent, kind, open-minded, funny, dependable, |
| desirable coalition member characteristics by men | brave in danger, strong, good fighter, physically dominating |
| about twice as many men as women | think about committing homicide |
| men's homicide fantasies | are longer than women's |
| men were more likely to have homicidal thoughts | in response to a personal threat, know what kill is like, conflict over money, and public humiliation |
| about half of step children | have fantasies about killing their step parents |
| only about a quarter of children | have fantasies about killing their parents |
| slip-up hypothesis | males evolved psychological mechanisms as a means of coercive control and eliminating conflict result in threat or sublethal violence which may slip into homicide |
| homicide adaptation theory (no "killer instinct") | humans evolved psychological mechanisms to kill under certain predictable circumstances such as warfare, infidelity, defection |
| homicidal fantasies | allow working through a homicidal scenario to evaluate costs and benefits |
| homicide context sensitive solutions | protecting life of self or kin, gaining scarce resources, eliminating your or children's rivals, depriving rivals mates |
| coevolved anti-homicide defenses | avoid being killed and inflict costs on homicide attempts |
| homicide context sensitive solutions and coevolved anti-homicide defenses | perpetual coevolutionary arms race |
| homicide context sensitive solutions support | many species kill conspecifics, long homicide history, intrasexual rivalry homicides, infanticides, and warfare universal |
| mechanisms of underlying aggression solutions to adaptive problems | resource procurement, intrasexual competition, hierarchy negotiation, mate retention |
| evolutionary psychology interactionist | causal conditions in which features of the perpetrator, victim, social context and adaptive problem evoke aggression as a strategic solution |
| polygyny | polygamy in which a man has more than one wife. |
| homicide adaption theory | supported by the premeditated nature of many hoicides |
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