Self-protection as an adaptive female strategy

JF Benenson, CE Webb… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Many male traits are well explained by sexual selection theory as adaptations to mating
competition and mate choice, whereas no unifying theory explains traits expressed more in …

Staying alive: Evolution, culture, and women's intrasexual aggression

A Campbell - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1999 - cambridge.org
Females' tendency to place a high value on protecting their own lives enhanced their
reproductive success in the environment of evolutionary adaptation because infant survival …

The relevance of sex differences in risk-taking to the military and the workplace

KR Browne - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1999 - cambridge.org
Sex differences in willingness to take physical risks and in concern for peer esteem may be
relevant to whether women should serve in combat, since two major fears soldiers …

Does sexual selection explain human sex differences in aggression?

J Archer - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2009 - cambridge.org
I argue that the magnitude and nature of sex differences in aggression, their development,
causation, and variability, can be better explained by sexual selection than by the alternative …

Specific versus general adaptations: Another unnecessary dichotomy?

D Pérusse - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1992 - cambridge.org
Abstract? Psychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, sexual coercion by
men could either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side …

A feminist response to rape as an adaptation in men

S Brownmiller, B Mehrhof - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1992 - cambridge.org
Abstract? Psychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, sexual coercion by
men could either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side …

The evolutionary psychology of men's coercive sexuality

R Thornhill, NW Thornhill - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1992 - cambridge.org
Psychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, sexual coercion by men could
either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side-effect of a …

Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology

D Maestripieri, A Henry, N Nickels - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the
labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental …

Fitness, function, fidelity, fornication, and feminine philandering

JP Hailman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1980 - cambridge.org
Patterns in the data on human sexuality support the hypothesis that the bases of sexual
emotions are products of natural selection. Most generally, the universal existence of laws …

Sex, attachment, and the development of reproductive strategies

M Del Giudice - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2009 - cambridge.org
This target article presents an integrated evolutionary model of the development of
attachment and human reproductive strategies. It is argued that sex differences in …