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26 - Survival, Selection, and Sex Differences in Fear

from Part VII - Sexual Selection and Human Sex Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

By
Anne Campbell
Edited by
Lance Workman ,
Will Reader  and
Jerome H. Barkow
Lance Workman
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Will Reader
Affiliation:
Sheffield Hallam University
Jerome H. Barkow
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
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Summary

A cursory glance at human behavior suggests that men are considerably less careful with their lives than women. They are up to four times more likely to die from external causes (Kruger & Nesse, 2006). Many of these deaths are the result of car accidents, and men commit 97 percent of drink-driving offenses in Britain (Social Issues Research Centre, 2004). Men also die at a higher rate from nonvehicle accidents, such as drowning, falling, and electrocution (Pampel, 2001). They are the victims in 77 percent of homicides and the perpetrators in 88 percent of them (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2012). They participate more often in extreme sports such as skydiving and mountain climbing (Robinson, 2008). The evolutionary explanation for men’s seemingly careless attitude to survival is that such behaviors are men’s way of conspicuously showing off their appetite for risk, the better to elicit respect from other men and sexual interest from women.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior , pp. 313 - 329
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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