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Only as a last resort: Sociocultural differences between women and men explain women's heightened reaction to threat, not evolutionary principles

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Abstract The target article proposed that women display greater self-protectiveness than men to major physical and social threats because such self-protective responses have higher fitness value for women than men.… Click to show full abstract

Abstract The target article proposed that women display greater self-protectiveness than men to major physical and social threats because such self-protective responses have higher fitness value for women than men. Rather than having evolutionary roots, we suggest the various physiological, behavioral, and emotional responses to social and physical threats exhibited more by women than men are instead rooted in sociocultural forces.

Keywords: last resort; sociocultural differences; resort sociocultural; men explain; women men; differences women

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022

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