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Costs and benefits of female aggressiveness in humans and other mammals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Dario Maestripieri  and
Kelly A. Carroll
Dario Maestripieri
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 psydm@emory.edu
Kelly A. Carroll
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149 kcarroll@berry.edu
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Abstract

Sex differences in aggressive behavior are probably adaptive but the costs and benefits of risky aggression to women and men may be different from those suggested in Campbell's target article. Moreover, sex differences are more likely to reflect differences in the costs of aggression to females and males rather than differences in its benefits.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 231 - 232
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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