89 Sex Differences and Intrasexual Variation in Competitive Confrontation and Risk Taking: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective

An evolutionary psychological perspective can be of assistance to researchers investigating psychophysiological mechanisms, by identifying the sorts of contingent responses that are likely to have been favored by selection and by suggesting hypotheses about the ways in which these mechanisms respond to social factors and to cues of future prospects. We first introduce the evolutionary psychological perspective, with emphasis on the concepts of …