Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context: evidence for a sexual coercion threat-management system among women

McDonald, Melissa M.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Cesario, Joseph; Navarrete, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.04.002

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“…A number of studies have also documented that women's self-protection behavior varies as a function of conception risk across the menstrual cycle, a key factor that exacerbates the reproductive cost of sexual assault. For example, studies have shown that women at high risk of conception, relative to women at low risk, are less likely to engage in sexually risky activities (Bröder & Hohmann, 2003; Chavanne & Gallup, 1998), infer greater threat from male strangers (Fessler, Holbrook, & Fleischman, 2014; Garver-Apgar, Gangestad, & Simpson, 2007), exert greater handgrip strength in response to sexually threatening contexts (Petralia & Gallup, 2002), and express greater bias against outgroup males (McDonald, Asher, Kerr, & Navarrete, 2011, 2015; Navarrete, Fessler, Fleischman, & Geyer, 2009). While a general motivation for self-protection should be constant across the menstrual cycle, the motivation to protect reproductive choice is most pertinent on days when conception risk is elevated, indicating that these findings are better explained by the motivation to protect reproductive choice than the SAT.…”

Section: Not All Self-protection Functions To Promote Survivalmentioning

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Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice

McDonald¹,

James²

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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Defense of reproductive choice is an important motivation in women's self-protection psychology for which the “staying alive theory” cannot fully account. Evidence indicates that some elements of women's self-protection psychology function to protect reproductive choice rather than survival, or may be equally well explained by either motivation. Integrating perspectives will result in greater explanatory breadth and precision in theory testing.

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Section: Not All Self-protection Functions To Promote Survivalmentioning

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Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice

McDonald¹,

James²

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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“…Lastly, we expected a number of sex differences. First, a number of studies have shown that girls have a higher resistance against intergroup dating than boys (Carol and Teney 2015;McDonald et al 2015). For example, Huschek et al (2011) found among men of Turkish and Moroccan descent living in the Netherlands had had more often a non-co-ethnic partner than women o the same descent, suggesting that minority men may have more positive attitudes towards interethnic marriage than minority women have.…”

Section: Sex Differencesmentioning

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Attitudes Towards Cousin Marriages: Findings Among Young People from Mexico

Buunk

Massar

2020

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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The present research examined how life history and resistance against interethnic mating were related to positive and negative attitudes towards cousin marriages among young people aged between 15 and 25 from a rural area in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The sample included three ethnic groups: Mestizos (people of mixed Spanish and indigenous descent, n = 84), indigenous Mixtecs (n = 83), and Afro-Mexicans (n = 33). In general, respondents reported more negative than positive attitudes towards cousin marriage. Among the Mestizos, but not in the other ethnic groups, women reported more negative attitudes than men did. The main objections against marrying a cousin were that it might lead to family conflict and might result in genetic defects of one's offspring. The main positive aspect of cousin marriage that participants mentioned was that one would marry someone with the same values. The ethnic groups did not differ in their attitudes towards cousin marriages. A slower life history was related to a more negative (but not a less positive) attitude towards cousin marriages, whereas resistance against out-group mating was related to a more positive (but not a less negative) attitude towards cousin marriages. The implications of the results are discussed in the context of life history theory, the benefits of in-group marriage, and the potential positive and negative effects of cousin marriages.

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“…While females may show bias because they perceive out-group males as a threat to sexual coercion, men do so because they perceive out-group males as aggressors and, hence, as threat to social dominance (McDonald, Asher, Kerr, & Navarrete, 2011;McDonald, Donnellan, Cesario, & Navarrete, 2015;Navarrete et al, 2010).…”

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“…Yet, while both men and women can show negative bias toward out‐group males, the motivational basis for this bias differs between the genders. While females may show bias because they perceive out‐group males as a threat to sexual coercion, men do so because they perceive out‐group males as aggressors and, hence, as threat to social dominance (McDonald, Asher, Kerr, & Navarrete, ; McDonald, Donnellan, Cesario, & Navarrete, ; Navarrete et al, ).…”

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Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

Johansson

Kunst

2017

J Applied Social Pyschol

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People with mental disorders often face prejudices that can further deteriorate their condition. We tested whether Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and Belief in a Just World (BJW), and characteristics of the mentally ill predict such prejudices. Both in a general population sample and a sample of health professionals and trainees, SDO, but not RWA and BJW, predicted more prejudice, although this pattern was less pronounced among health professionals/trainees. BJW interacted with the targets' gender in Study 1, predicting less empathy toward a male but not toward a female mentally ill person. In Study 2, depressed individuals were blamed more for their illness than those with schizophrenia or cancer. Implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed.

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Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context: evidence for a sexual coercion threat-management system among women

Cited by 22 publications

References 50 publications

Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice

Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice

Attitudes Towards Cousin Marriages: Findings Among Young People from Mexico

Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

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