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evolpsy307 ch11p354
evolpsy307 ch11p354-end
Term | Definition |
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men are especially jealous, proprietary and coercive | toward younger wives |
wive are at greatest risks of being killed by their husbands | teenagers and with wives married to older husbands at greater risk than those married to younger men |
men's perceptions of their partner's interest in other men | stronger predictor of male violence than women's actual interest |
men who use tactics of emotional manipulation and monopolization of partner's time | are more likely to use physical violence to control their partner |
presence of stepchildren in the home genetically unrelated to man | increases the women's risk of physical violence at his hands |
men who experience a relative lack of economic resources | will be more likely to use violence as a mate-retention tactic |
"fast life history strategy" | proclivity toward short-term mating, psychopathetic tendencies, and poor impulse control put women at risk of partner violence |
psychopathetic | suffering from or constituting a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. |
presence of woman's extended kin | deter partner from committing violence against her |
women exert power through | preferential mate choice. divorce, controlling sexual access, and influencing relatives |
men control and use resources | to control women |
feminists have no consensus about why men | control and dominate women |
women's preference for men with resources means over time | men lacking assets were more likely to have failed to attract women as mates |
resource priority in ancestral psychological mechanisms | tend to lead men to take risks to attain resources and status |
resource competition causes high | male-male violence and homicide and man's average earlier death than women |
men's strategies of intrasexual competition coevolved with women's preferences | as did men's preferences and women's strategies of intrasexual competition |
generally men and women are both victims of sexual strategies of their own sex and so cannot be said | to be united with all members of their own sex to oppose the other sex |
men may form subgroups to gain access to women's sexuality | as in gang rapes or raid to capture women, men's clubs, |
each member are united with some members of each sex | and in conflict with some members of each sex |