PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Naturalistic Fallacy, Sexual Selection, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Outline lecture 17 conflict 1: introduction to conflict & basic concepts. Acquisition of resources: aggression as risky hawk strategy. Violence as deterrent: sexual selection & reproductive variance: more variance in male reproduction. Evolution of risk-taking: nothing to lose (e. g. some males, especially under polygyny) Men more acceptable to have polygynous marriages. Men have both more winners (people with many kids) and more losers (no kids). Variance is greater in males, more males failing to reproduce. Risky behaviour: of options with equal expected payoff, the riskier behaviour is the one with greater variance in outcome. B) flip a coin to receive either 5 or 15 units. Sex differences in violent conflict (males more physically violent) Males are more violent, former english colonies affect this. Researchers have long sought such a society where women are more violent than men. Close analysis reveals a male bias in violence alleged examples of sex-role.