scholarly journals Do human females use indirect aggression as an intrasexual competition strategy?

2013 ◽  
Vol 368 (1631) ◽  
pp. 20130080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Vaillancourt
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Intrasexual Competition ◽  
Indirect Aggression ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Human Females ◽  
Willingness To Compete

Indirect aggression includes behaviours such as criticizing a competitor's appearance, spreading rumours about a person's sexual behaviour and social exclusion. Human females have a particular proclivity for using indirect aggression, which is typically directed at other females, especially attractive and sexually available females, in the context of intrasexual competition for mates. Indirect aggression is an effective intrasexual competition strategy. It is associated with a diminished willingness to compete on the part of victims and with greater dating and sexual behaviour among those who perpetrate the aggression.

Evolutionary models of female intrasexual competition

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Mealey
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Model ◽  
Intrasexual Competition ◽  
Female Competition ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Reproductive Suppression ◽  
Human Females

Female competition generally takes nonviolent form, but includes intense verbal and nonverbal harassment that has profound social and physiological consequences. The evolutionary ecological model of competitive reproductive suppression in human females, might profitably be applied to explain a range of contemporary phenomena, including anorexia.

scholarly journals Social Exclusion: More Important to Human Females Than Males

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e55851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce F. Benenson ◽  
Henry Markovits ◽  
Brittney Hultgren ◽  
Tuyet Nguyen ◽  
Grace Bullock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Human Females

Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: Sex Differences in Gossip Frequency, Content, and Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam C. Davis ◽  
Caroline Dufort ◽  
Jessica Desrochers ◽  
Tracy Vaillancourt ◽  
Steven Arnocky
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Intrasexual Competition ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Frequency Content

Women’s Talk?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelin A. Sutton ◽  
Megan J. Oaten
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Intrasexual Competition ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Mate Competition ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Mating Advantage ◽  
The Individual

According to some feminist critiques, gossip is merely a form of women’s talk and thus an activity that men do not participate in. Yet gossip may be an ideal strategy for both men and women to engage in when involved in mate competition, allowing the individual to covertly damage a competitor’s reputation while simultaneously preserving his or her own. This chapter investigates the role of gossip in mate competition, considering the influence of variables including sex and attraction context on both the usage and success of a gossip-based competition strategy. Evidence shows that, although sex differences do exist in reputation-based gossip, both men and women are willing to use gossip strategically in order to gain a mating advantage. Overall, it appears that gossip is an effective, low-risk, and non-sex-specific intrasexual competition strategy for individuals to employ in both traditional and poaching attraction contexts.

scholarly journals Correction to: Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: Sex Differences in Gossip Frequency, Content, and Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam C. Davis ◽  
Caroline Dufort ◽  
Jessica Desrochers ◽  
Tracy Vaillancourt ◽  
Steven Arnocky
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Intrasexual Competition ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Frequency Content

Teenage sex at the margins

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Jon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Teenage Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Training ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
The Uk

Reports research into the sexual behaviour of UK teenagers at the margins of society, the project was a response to the Social Exclusion Unit’s brief to reduce the rate of teenage conceptions and to move teenage parents into education, training or employment. Focuses on the issues of recruiting teenagers for interview, methodology, and building trusting two‐way relationships with them so that sensitive subjects like condom use could be discussed. Characterises these teenage parents and their social status, and compares the UK with the rest of Europe: the former has a simultaneously puritanical and prurient culture. Finds that pairs of friends provided an open and honest environment for research, while journals and cameras provided to the teenage respondents were an essential part of the project. Finds that for them sex is often spontaneous, accompanied by alcohol, and invariably unprotected.

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