PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feminist Theory, Relational Aggression, Caffeine
16 Dec 2015
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Men are 40x more likely to kill unrelated other males than women are to kill unrelated other females. Women are more aggressive than men in relational aggression (mean to one another on purpose) Women interested in high quality offspring, men interested in high quantity. Division of labour between men and women which causes them to have different social roles. During the rearing of boys they"re encouraged to be aggressive more than girls, girls are told not to be. Feminist theory doesn"t go back far enough to genes. Gender differences should be largest during period of highest reproductive activity. Should emerge when very young and not increase with socialization. Meta-analysis- combined data and statistics and coming up with a statistical. Meta-analysis- combined data and statistics and coming up with a statistical conclusion, using all the literature; statistical analysis. Gender differences run from small, but significant, to very large. Gender differences are far larger for physical aggression.
