Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-rwnhh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-20T21:52:58.991Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The origins of aggression sex differences: Evolved dispositions versus social roles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Alice H. Eagly  and
Wendy Wood
Alice H. Eagly
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 eagly@nwu.edu
Wendy Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 wlw@psyc.tamu.edu
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The ultimate causes of sex differences in human aggressive behavior can lie mainly in evolved, inherited mechanisms that differ by sex or mainly in the differing placement of women and men in the social structure. The present commentary contrasts Campbell's evolutionary interpretation of aggression sex differences with a social structural interpretation that encompasses a wider range of phenomena.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 223 - 224
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press