PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Domestic Violence, Uxoricide, Iceberg
6 Apr 2015
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Actions taken to prevent partner from mating with another (all of these may also be performed by kin members) Older womwn (but not men) condemn infidelity more strongly. Womens mate value more strongly tied to age than men"s. Males sometimes deter infidelity and desertion with the threat (and use) of violence. Suspected or actual infidelity and threats to leave are the major causes of spousal abuse and homicide. Threat of killing convincing threat makes sound crazy even though irrational and unlikely. Married women are more likely to be killed by hidbands from. Argument: men use relationship violence to control women sexuality and deter infidelity and desertion. Prediction as the motivation to control increases spousal violence will increase. Q: which women are men most moricared to control. Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives in canada. The motivation to control reproductive resource is higher when reproductive success is higher. Older men are more abusive then younger men.
