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Good genes, mating effort, and delinquency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Martin L. Lalumière  and
Vernon L. Quinsey
Martin L. Lalumière
Affiliation:
Forensic Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8 [email protected]
Vernon L. Quinsey
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Queen's University at Kingston, Humphrey Hall, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6 [email protected]
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Abstract

High mating effort and antisocial and delinquent behaviors are closely linked. Some delinquent behaviors may honestly signal genetic quality. Men who exhibit high mating effort and who have high genetic quality would be expected to engage in more sexual coercion than other men because its costs to them are lowered by female preferences for them as sexual partners.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 608 - 609
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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