PSY 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Loss Aversion, Psychopathy, Social Inequality
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More likely to be men, aged 15-34. Psychopathy: low empathy, grandiosity (entitlement & insensitivity to punishment) High resource alienability (resources can be easily taken away) Honor culture: belief that reputation for toughness is central to survival. For mating access is greater for lower-investment sex (males) Creates greater variance in reproductive success among males relative to females. Higher reproductive ceiling for males ~ greater opportunity costs. Pays for maates to invest more in mating effort than parenting effort. Men more likely to take greater risks (violence) Mating motive hypothesis: with mating as ultimate goal of risky behavior, men should be more risk-seeking, competitive and aggressive when mating motives salient. *men are more likely to switch from loss averse to (risk) gain-seeking when mating motives salient. Competition for mates at root of violence among men. Males aggressed against other males after mating prime. Men use aggression to eliminate competitors as a tool to monopolize mating.
