AO3

• Sexual Jealousy:

  • Daly and Wilson said that 58 out of 214 cases of murder, sexual jealousy was the underlying factor.
  • Daly and Wilson believes aggression is a universal behaviour in response to sexual jealousy and infidelity!
• sexual Jealousy

  • Wilson found that women who agreed with questionnaire item such as "he is jealous and does not want you to talk to other men" were twice as likely to have experienced violence in their relationship
  • Indeed, 72% of them required hospital treatment
• Aggression in warfare

  • Palmer and Tilley (1995) found that male youth gang members had more sexual partners than males not in gangs
• Aggression in warfare

  Leunissen et al (2010) found that military men had greater sex appeal but only if they had been seen showing bravery in combat. In fact males do become very sensitive to any perceived threat to their status. So aggression is a way of getting higher status but is also a consequence of it being threatened as well!