The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societies
have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage), and both empirical …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of most recent studies of parental
and stepparental filicide. A detailed review of the literature revealed the importance of …

Why is revenge such a pervasive and destructive problem? How can we create a future in
which revenge is less common and forgiveness is more common? Psychologist Michael …

Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and
underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from …

Despite many empirical studies of children killed by parents, there has been little theoretical
progress. An examination of 378 cases in a national register revealed that circumstances …

Data drawn from the Australian Homicide Project were used to examine whether and how
maternal and paternal filicide perpetrators differ in terms of motivations for filicide and …

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in
ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural …

Skepticism is a useful faculty for any scientist, and one that the social sciences afford their
prac titioners abundant opportunities to exercise. However, the work of evolutionary …

The article's aim is to evaluate the application of the evolutionary principles of kin selection,
reproductive value, and resource holding power to the understanding of family violence. The …

Kinship ties-the close relationships found within the family-have been a central focus of
evolutionary biological analyses of social behavior ever since biologist William Hamilton …