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  1. Male aggression against women.Barbara Smuts - 1992 - Human Nature 3 (1):1-44.
    Male aggression against females in primates, including humans, often functions to control female sexuality to the male’s reproductive advantage. A comparative, evolutionary perspective is used to generate several hypotheses to help to explain cross-cultural variation in the frequency of male aggression against women. Variables considered include protection of women by kin, male-male alliances and male strategies for guarding mates and obtaining adulterous matings, and male resource control. The relationships between male aggression against women and gender ideologies, male domination of women, (...)
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  • Cultural versus reproductive success: Resolving the conundrum.Eric Alden Smith - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):307-307.
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  • What does evolution tell us about age preferences?Steven A. Sloman & Leon Sloman - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):110-111.
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  • Male reproductive success as a function of social status: Some unanswered evolutionary questions.Jeffry A. Simpson - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):305-307.
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  • Half a theory and half the data for half the people?Jeffry A. Simpson - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):109-110.
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  • The adaptiveness of imaginatively eliminating behaviors: Stripping the cultural varnish from the natural evolutionary woodwork.James Silverberg - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):304-305.
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  • Pathways to sociopathy: Twin analyses offer direction.Nancy L. Segal - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):574-575.
    Understanding the bases of complex behavioral phenotypes, such as sociopathy, is assisted by an evolutionary approach, in addition to other theoretical perspectives. Unraveling genetic and environmental factors underlying variant forms of sociopathy remains a key challenge for behavioral science investigators. Twin research methods (e.g., longitudinal analyses; twins reared apart) offer informative means of assessing novel hypotheses relevant to sociopathic behaviors.
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  • Sociobiology's bully pulpit: Romancing the gene.Glendon Schubert - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):749-750.
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  • Marital choice and reproductive strategies.Robert Schoen - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):109-109.
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  • The evolutionary model is synthetic not heuristic.P. A. Russell - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):108-109.
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  • Age similarity is genetic similarity.J. Philippe Rushton - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):108-108.
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  • Evolution, mating effort, and crime.David C. Rowe - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):573-574.
    Unlike some psychiatric illnesses, criminal lifestyles are not reproductive dead ends and may represent frequency-dependent adaptations. Sociopaths may gain reproductively from their greater relative to nonsociopaths. This mating-effort construct should be assessed directly in future studies of sociopathy. Collaboration between biologically oriented and environmentally oriented researchers is needed to investigate the biosocial basis of sociopathy.
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  • Personal ads as deviant and unsatisfactory: Support for evolutionary hypotheses.D. W. Rajecki & Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):107-107.
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  • Psychopathy and violence: Arousal, temperament, birth complications, maternal rejection, and prefrontal dysfunction.Adrian Raine - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):571-573.
    The key questions arising from Mealey's analysis are: Do environmental factors such as early maternal rejection also contribute to the emotional deficits observed in psychopaths? Are there psychophysiological protective factors for antisocial behavior that have clinical implications? Does a disinhibited temperament and low arousal predispose to primary psychopathy? Would primary or secondary psychopaths be most characterized by prefrontal dysfunction?
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  • Psychopathy is a nonarbitrary class.Vernon L. Quinsey & Martin L. Lalumière - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):571-571.
    Recent evidence that psychopathy is a nonarbitrary population, such that the trait may be categorical rather than continuous, is consistent with Mealey's distinction between primary and secondary psychopaths. Thus, there are likely to be at least two routes to criminality, and psychopathic and nonpsychopathic criminals are likely to respond differently to interventions.
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  • Human status seeking is a Darwinian adaptation.Daniel Pérusse - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):312-322.
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  • Cultural and reproductive success in industrial societies: Testing the relationship at the proximate and ultimate levels.Daniel Pérusse - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):267-283.
    In most social species, position in the male social hierarchy and reproductive success are positively correlated; in humans, however, this relationship is less clear, with studies of traditional societies yielding mixed results. In the most economically advanced human populations, the adaptiveness of status vanishes altogether; social status and fertility are uncorrelated. These findings have been interpreted to suggest that evolutionary principles may not be appropriate for the explanation of human behavior, especially in modern environments. The present study tests the adaptiveness (...)
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  • Emotions and sociopathy.Robert Plutchik - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):570-571.
    Questions are raised about several issues discussed by Mealey: (1) the nature of the distinction between primary and secondary sociopaths, (2) some difficulties with a general arousal theory of criminality, and (3) the possible role of countervailing forces in the development of sociopathy. An important area that calls for attention is the patterning of different specific emotions in the lives of sociopaths as compared to other groups.
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  • Stretching the theory beyond its limits.H. C. Plotkin - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):303-304.
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  • “Genetics” and DNA polymorphisms.Robert Plomin - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):570-570.
    Four questions are raised about Mealey's genetic argument: (1) Where is the evidence that secondary sociopathy is less heritable than primary sociopathy? (2) What is the genetic correlation between the two types of sociopathy? (3) How does genotype-environment interaction relate? (4) How strong are the links between our evolutionary past and current heritability?
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  • On the brain and personality substrates of psychopathy.Jaak Panksepp, Brian Knutson & Laura Bird - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):568-570.
    Further understanding at neuroscientific and personality levels should considerably advance our ability to deal with individuals that have strong sociopathic tendencies. An analysis of neurodynamic responses to emotional stimuli will eventually be able to detect sociopathic tendencies of the brain. Such information could be used to enhance the options available to individuals at risk without limiting their personal freedoms.
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  • Touchstones of abnormal personality theory.Richard W. J. Neufeld - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):567-568.
    Strengths of Mealey's target article are its implementation of results from game-theoretic analyses and its potential links with other formal developments. In recent dynamic decision/choice models, reduced salience of avoidance tendencies, said to typify primary sociopaths, has quantifiable consequences for response latencies and choices. Also, formal models of stress effects on information processing predict selected effects of hypoarousability.
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  • Cultural success and the study of adaptive design.Monique Borgerhoff Mulder - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):286-287.
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  • Actual and potential reproduction: There is no substitute for victory.Ulrich Mueller - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):301-303.
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  • Adaptive and nonadaptive explanations of sociopathy.Chris Moore & Michael R. Rose - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):566-567.
    We doubt that primary sociopathy is adaptive, for three reasons: First, its prevalence is too low to require an adaptive explanation. Second, a common sequela of damage to the orbito-frontal lobes is Any pattern of behavior that can be produced by brain damage is unlikely to be adaptive. Third, we argue that most human social behavior is not under tight genetic control, but is produced by open-ended calculation of fitness-contingencies.
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  • May/December romance: Adaptive significance non probabilis est.Christopher A. Moffatt & Randy J. Nelson - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):106-107.
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  • The sociobiology of sociopathy: An integrated evolutionary model.Linda Mealey - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18:523-541.
    Sociopaths are “outstanding” members of society in two senses: politically, they draw our attention because of the inordinate amount of crime they commit, and psychologically, they hold our fascination because most ofus cannot fathom the cold, detached way they repeatedly harm and manipulate others. Proximate explanations from behavior genetics, child development, personality theory, learning theory, and social psychology describe a complex interaction of genetic and physiological risk factors with demographic and micro environmental variables that predispose a portion of the population (...)
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  • Sociobiology or evolutionary psychology? The debate continues.Linda Mealey - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):300-301.
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  • Primary sociopathy (psychopathy) is a type, secondary is not.Linda Mealey - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):579-599.
    Recent studies lend support to the two-pathway model of the evolution of sociopathy with evidence that: 1) psychopathy (primary sociopathy) is a discrete type and 2) in general, sociopaths have relatively high levels of reproductive success. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist may provide a start for the revision of terminology that will be necessary to distinguish between primary and secondary trajectories.
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  • Individual differences in reproductive tactics: Cuing, assessment, and facultative strategies.Linda Mealey - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):105-106.
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  • Diathesis stress model or “Just So” story?Richard M. McFall, James T. Townsend & Richard J. Viken - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):565-566.
    Mealey's sociopathy model is an exemplar of popular diathesis-stress models. Although such models, when presented in descriptive language, offer the illusion of integrative explanation, their actual scientific value is very limited because they fail to make specific, quantitative, falsifiable predictions. Conceptual and quantitative weaknesses of such diathesis-stress models are discussed and the requirements for useful models are outlined.
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  • Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape.Larry May & Robert Strikwerda - 1994 - Hypatia 9 (2):134 - 151.
    We criticize the following views: only the rapist is responsible since only he committed the act; no one is responsible since rape is a biological response to stimuli; everyone is responsible since men and women contribute to the rape culture; and patriarchy is responsible but no person or group. We then argue that, in some societies, men are collectively responsible for rape since most benefit from rape and most are similar to the rapist.
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  • Genetic issues in “the sociobiology of sociopathy”.Stephen C. Maxson - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):565-565.
    A consideration of the genetics of sociopathy suggests the following. The author's Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) types 2 to 4 are more likely than types 1 and 5 in crimes of violence, and there may not be an ESS for crimes of property or for sociopathy. Correlations between sociopathy and crimes of property are also more likely due to environmental than to genetic variants, and correlations between sociopathy and crimes of property are due more to environmental than genetic variants.
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  • Evolved psychology in a novel environment.Joseph H. Manson - 1998 - Human Nature 9 (2):97-117.
    The human “environment of evolutionary adaptedness” can only be inferred indirectly. In contrast, the behavior of some nonhuman animals can be compared among “natural” and various altered environments. As an example, male immigration tactics in unprovisioned versus provisioned macaque (Macaca) populations are compared using Tooby and Cosmides’s (1992) framework for evolutionary functional analysis. In unprovisioned populations, social groups contain few males, and immigrant male takeovers of alpha rank occur frequently. In provisioned populations, groups contain many males, and males almost invariably (...)
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  • Sociobiology, sociopathy, and social policy.Richard Machalek - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):564-564.
    Evolutionary analysis suggests that policies based on deterrence may cope effectively with primary sociopathy if the threat of punishment fits the crime in the cost/benefit calculus of the sociopath, not that of the public. On the other hand, policies designed to offset serious disadvantage in social competition may help inhibit the development of secondary sociopathy, rather than deter its expression.
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  • Fatherless rearing leads to sociopathy.David T. Lykken - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):563-564.
    Endorsing Mealey's analysis, it is pointed out that increasing rates of crime and violence are due to increasing proportions of children being reared in circumstances radically different from the extendedfamily environment to which we are evolntionarily adapted, that is, they are reared without fathers.
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  • Resources and reproduction: What hath the demographic transition wrought?Bobbi S. Low - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):300-300.
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  • On building bridges between social psychology and evolutionary biology.Richard Lippa - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):104-105.
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  • Biological versus social psychological bases of mate selection.George Levinger & Lee A. Kirkpatrick - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):103-104.
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  • An evaluation of Mealey's hypotheses based on psychopathy checklist: Identified groups.David S. Kosson & Joseph P. Newman - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):562-563.
    Although Mealey's account provides several interesting hypotheses, her integration across disparate samples renders the value of her explanation for psychopathy ambiguous. Recent evidence on Psychopathy Checklist-identified samples (Hare, 1991) suggests primary emotional and cognitive deficits inconsistent with her model. Whereas high-anxious psychopaths display interpersonal deficits consistent with Mealey's hypotheses, low-anxious psychopaths' deficits appear more sensitive to situational parameters than predicted.
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  • Do these sociobiologists have an answer for everything?Douglas T. Kenrick - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):299-300.
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  • Al Capone, discrete morphs, and complex dynamic systems.Douglas T. Kenrick & Stephanie Brown - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):560-561.
    We consider four mechanisms by which apparent discontinuities in the distribution of antisociality could arise: (1) executive genes or hormonal systems, (2) multiplicative interactions of predisposing factors, (3) environmental tracking into a limited number of social roles, and (4) cross-generational gene—environment interactions. A more explicit consideration of complex self-organizing dynamic systems may help us understand the maintenance of antisocial subpopulations.
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  • Social dominance attainment, testosterone, libido and reproductive success.Theodore D. Kemper - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):298-299.
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  • The problem of resource accrual and reproduction in modern human populations remains an unsolved evolutionary puzzle.Hillard Kaplan - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):297-298.
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  • Suspicions of female infidelity predict men's partner-directed violence.Farnaz Kaighobadi, Todd K. Shackelford & John Archer - 2009 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4):281.
    Archer's argument regarding sex differences in partner violence rests on a general account of between-sex differences in reproductive strategies and in social roles. However, men's partner-directed violence often is predicted by perceived risk of female infidelity. We hypothesize that men's partner-directed violence is produced by psychological mechanisms evolved to solve the adaptive problem of paternity uncertainty.
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  • Monogamy, contraception and the cultural and reproductive success hypothesis.William Irons - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):295-296.
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  • Genes, hormones, and gender in sociopathy.Katharine Hoyenga - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):560-560.
    Although serotonin, testosterone, and genes contribute to sociopathy, the relationships are probably indirect and subject to modifiers (e.g., present only under certain conditions of rearing and temperament). Age at menarche may be a marker variable as well as a causal factor. Since the genders differ in all four areas, sex differences in sociopathy represent a very complex interaction of these factors.
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  • Just so stories and inference to the best explanation in evolutionary psychology.Harmon R. Holcomb - 1996 - Minds and Machines 6 (4):525-540.
    Evolutionary psychology is a science in the making, working toward the goal of showing how psychological adaptation underlies much human behavior. The knee-jerk reaction that sociobiology is unscientific because it tells just-so stories has become a common charge against evolutionary psychology as well. My main positive thesis is that inference to the best explanation is a proper method for evolutionary analyses, and it supplies a new perspective on the issues raised in Schlinger's (1996) just-so story critique. My main negative thesis (...)
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  • Implications of an evolutionary biopsychosocial model.Harmon R. Holcomb - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):559-560.
    Mealey's work has several interesting implications: It refutes the charge that sociobiology paints a cynical portrait of human nature and adopts a one-sided reductionism; it exemplifies a general theoretical scheme for constructing evolutionary biopsychosocial models of human behavior; and it has the practical effect of promoting and informing early intervention in children at risk for psychopathic disorder.
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  • Are our reproductive choices affected by aspects of socioeconomic resources?Elizabeth M. Hill - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):294-295.
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