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Muggleton, Naomi K., Tarran, Sarah and Fincher, Corey L. (2019) Who punishes promiscuous women? Both women and men are prejudiced towards sexually-accessible women, but only women inflict costly punishment. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40 (3). pp. 259-268. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.12.003 ISSN 1090-5138.
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Abstract
Across human societies, female sexuality is suppressed by gendered double standards, slut shaming, sexist rape laws, and honour killings. The question of what motivates societies to punish promiscuous women, however, has been contested. Although some have argued that men suppress female sexuality to increase paternity certainty, others maintain that this is an example of intrasexual competition. Here we show that both sexes are averse to overt displays of female sexuality, but that motivation is sex-specific. In all studies, participants played an economic game with a female partner whose photograph either signalled that she was sexually-accessible or sexually-restricted. In study 1, we found that men and women are less altruistic in a Dictator Game (DG) when partnered with a woman signalling sexual-accessibility. Both sexes were less trusting of sexually-accessible women in a Trust Game (TG) (study 2); women (but not men), however, inflicted costly punishment on a sexually-accessible woman in an Ultimatum Game (UG) (study 3). Our results demonstrate that both sexes are averse to overt sexuality in women, whilst highlighting potential differences in motivation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Sexual behavior , Man-woman relationships, Promiscuity, Sexual ethics, Sex discrimination against women | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Evolution and Human Behavior | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1090-5138 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 259-268 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.12.003 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 March 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 December 2019 |
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