Chapter 10 EP

Fox found that men __________.

(a) Assess their fighting ability more frequently than do women

Nisbett pointed out that failure to aggress when aggressed against in "cultures of honor" can result in __________.

(a) loss of status

Which theory provides the starting point for understanding why most murderers AND murder victims are male?

(a) parental investment theory

Which of the following traits was associated with more anger-proneness among men but not women?

(a) strength

In traditional cultures, men's mortality rate due to warfare and homicide is quite high, sometimes even as high as 36 percent. This implies that __________.

(a) there was likely recurrently high selective pressure on men to evolve anti-homicide mechanisms

Within primate species, the ___________ effective polygyny, the ___________ sexual dimorphism.

(b) greater the; greater the

Aggression perpetrated by women is often all of the following EXCEPT __________.

(b) premeditated

Males of many species have to impress the females with their physical prowess in order to gain sexual access. What attribute makes humans different such that men experience young male syndrome?

(b) reputation

Of all the same-sex killings involving "love triangles," what percent were male-male killings?

(c) 92 percent

Which of the following is NOT an essential condition that must be met for adaptations to evolve for initiating coalitional aggression?

(c) The risk that each member takes and the importance of each member's contribution to the success must translate into an inequitable share of the benefits.

Within the Yanomamö, men are distinguished as either unokais (those who have killed) or non-unokais (those who have not killed). In their early twenties, unokais already had ___ times more ______ than non-unokais.

(c) four; wives

Figueredo found that women with ___________ experienced lower levels of ____________.

(c) higher densities of kin; domestic violence

Which of the following individuals should be MOST anger-prone, according to the recalibration theory of anger?

(d) a young, beautiful woman

Which of the following, if documented, would support the recalibration theory?

(d) all of the above

A key function of verbal and physical aggression is to __________.

(d) inflict costs on same-sex rivals

Men in their _________ are most likely to be the victim of a homicide; they are ____ times more likely than women to become homicide victims at this age.

(d) mid-twenties; six

Among the Yanomamö, what is the most common reason for the initial fighting amongst tribes?

(d) women

Burbank's study of an Australian aboriginal tribe revealed that, of all the aggressive episodes involving a dangerous weapon, _________ percent were perpetrated by women.

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Of homicides committed in Chicago between 1965 and 1980, _____ percent were committed by men.

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Aggression appears designed to __________.

B)prevent the loss of status and honor that might otherwise results from being victimized

Throughout recorded human history,warfare has been used to __________.

C)both (a)and (b)

Buss and Shackelford proposed all of the following EXCEPT __________ as adaptive problems that aggression might solve.

C)inflicting costs on intersexual rivals

Buss and Shackelford proposed all of the following EXCEPT __________ as adaptive problems that aggression might solve

Inflicting costs on intersexual rivals

Sell and colleagues have documented men's ability to accurately estimate _________

a man's upper-body strength from facial photographs

In _______ cultures studied to date, men are overwhelmingly more often the perpetrators of homicide than are women.

all

The recalibration theory of anger __________.

c) proposes that anger functions to increase a target's valuation of one's welfare

Compared to women, the rates at which men slap, spit on, and hit their intimate partners are

c) roughly the same

The majority of victims of male perpetrated crimes are __________.

other men