Infidelity & Jealousy

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Evolutionary Explanations of Human Aggression (Unit 3)
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Greely (1994) AO1 -11% of females and 21% males admit to extra-marital sex
Buss et al (1992) AO1 -Aggression counteracts the threat of infidelity by reducing the threat
Miller (1980) AO1 -Data from 44 battered wives -55% cited jealousy as reason for husband's aggressive behaviour -Actual infidelity on the part of the women was only the case in 11 cases
Haden & Hoijat (2006) AO1 -Men are more likely to consider aggressive action against a rival, whereas women tended to be more emotionally reactive
Daly & Wilson (1985) AO1 -In 58 out of 214 cases of murder, sexual jealousy was underlying factor, involving two men contesting female partner
Buss/Wilson et al (1995) AO1 -Men have a number of mate-retention strategies that have evolved for the purpose of keeping a mate -Women who agreed on questionnaire items such as 'he is jealous and doesn't want you to talk with other man' were twice as likely to have experienced serious aggression from their partners
:) Lee (1979) AO2 -!Kung San tribe had murder rates four times higher than those in US -Provides cross-cultural support that aggression has evolved
:) Vandermeersch & Leveque (2002) AO2 -wounds found in remains of early humans, indicating infliction from man-made weapons, despite having no possessions to fight over.
:) Daly & Wilson (1982) AO2 -In 80 murders where victim and murderer were living together, the victims were 44 husbands & 36 wives -29% of these conflicts were deemed to have risen as a result of sexual jealousy -although more husbands murdered, this was out of self-defence -supports link between infidelity/jealous and aggression
:) Shackelford et al (2005) -When measuring 104 different mate-retention strategies and how often 26 violent acts were performed, there was a positive correlation
:( Buss & Shackelford (1997) AO2 -This approach cannot explain why people react in different ways when faced with the same adaptive problem. -Not all men are aggressive, for example, some may just get drunk when faced with infidelity/jealousy
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