TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The evolution of intimate partner violence
JO  - Aggression and violent behavior
A1  - Buss, David M.
A1  - Duntley, Joshua D.
SP  - 411
EP  - 419
VL  - 16
IS  - 5
N2  - An evolutionary perspective anticipates predictable forms of sexual conflict in human mating relationships. Humans have evolved a psychology of tactical deployment designed to influence a partner's behavior to be closer to the actor's own optimum. Tactics are diverse, ranging from benefit-bestowing to cost-inflicting. We discuss adaptive problems toward which cost-inflicting violent tactics are utilized: mate poachers, sexual infidelity, mate pregnancy by an intrasexual rival, resource infidelity, resource scarcity, mate value discrepancies, stepchildren, relationship termination, and mate reacquisition. Discussion focuses on the context-dependence of intimate partner violence, the costs of perpetrating violent tactics, the underlying psychology of aggressors, the manipulated psychology of victims, and co-evolved defenses to prevent intimate partner violence and to minimize its costs when it occurs.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1359-1789
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2011.04.015
ID  - ref1
ER  -