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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 307-313Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721417695559
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sexual conflict; human mating; sexual exploitation; deception
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Despite interdependent reproductive fates that favor cooperation, males and females exhibit many psychological and behavioral footprints of sexually antagonistic coevolution. These include strategies of deception, sexual exploitation, and sexual infidelity as well as anti-exploitation defenses such as commitment skepticism and emotions such as sexual regret and jealousy. Sexual conflict pervades the mating arena prior to sexual consummation, after a mating relationship has formed, and in the aftermath of a breakup. It also permeates many other social relationships in forms such as daughter-guarding, conflict in opposite-sex friendships, and workplace sexual harassment. As such, sexual conflict constitutes not a narrow or occasional flashpoint but rather persistent threads that run through our intensely group-living species.
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