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Post by congl95 on Oct 24, 2017 23:43:51 GMT
Aggression would be a good example. Aggressive behaviour is seen by evolutionary psychologists as an adaptive feature that was utilized by our ancient ancestors to scare off potential predators, attack prey, and defend against other humans wanting to do harm to our group. Aggressiveness is also, statistically speaking, more associated with male behaviour than female behaviour. Evolutionary psychologists believe this is so because males were predominantly the ones who fought against other males to assert their dominance, being able to get a mate from which they can have children and pass on their genes. It could be said that because violence is ingrained in our culture through movies and televisions, to the internet any beyond, and because most of the violent action heroes are males, that young boys are conditioned to associate violence with being more "manly" and it is seen as a virtue to be aggressive and even violent to others.
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