PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory, Role Theory, Trash-Talk
8 Mar 2016
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Aggression: harm is intended, harm is physical or emotional: gender differences. Evolutionary perspective: sexual strategies theory (sst) essentially our biology is causing our gender differences large gender differences in physical aggression (because physical aggression helps males obtain mates) Why would males be more physically aggressive than females? (testosterone, larger bodies) gender differences in reproductive biology: If males can get sperm to a viable egg, they have a chance of producing offspring. So it would be nice to get access to so many reproductive women. Aggression may have evolved in males because it helped males make vessels for their genes. Females wouldn"t benefit from being aggressive, so we do not see a similar evolution of physical aggression in females that we see in males. Gender differences in relational aggression (verbal smack talk) Why- gender differences in reproductive biology female-female competition for mates if you spread nasty rumors about someone, males won"t want to mate with her females compete for quality.
