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Universal sex differences across patriarchal cultures ≠ evolved psychological dispositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Alice H. Eagly  and
Wendy Wood
Alice H. Eagly*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60208-2710http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/eagly/
Wendy Wood*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC27708www.psych-shs.duke.edu/faculty/facultywood.html
*
eagly@northwestern.edu
wwood@duke.edu
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Abstract:

Schmitt's findings provide little evidence that sex differences in sociosexuality are explained by evolved dispositions. These sex differences are better explained by an evolutionary account that treats the psychological attributes of women and men as emergent, given the biological attributes of the sexes, especially female reproductive capacity, and the economic and social structural aspects of societies.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 281 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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