Female Directed Sexual Coercion in Intimate Relationships: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Shackelford, Todd K.
Abstract
Over human evolutionary history, men faced the adaptive problem of cuckoldry, or the unwitting investment in genetically unrelated offspring. As cuckoldry is potentially so reproductively costly, men may have evolved anti-cuckoldry psychological adaptations. Sexual coercion has been hypothesized as one class of anti-cuckoldry behaviors. By sexually coercing an intimate partner, a man may reduce the risk of cuckoldry by placing his sperm in competition with a rival male's spenn, should his partner have been sexually unfaithful. I will present three studies that investigate the role of female infidelity, an assessment of risk of spenn competition and subsequent cuckoldry, in predicting male sexual coercion in the context of an intimate relationship.
Extent
105 p.
Recommended Citation
Starratt, Valerie G., "Female Directed Sexual Coercion in Intimate Relationships: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1471.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1471
Identifier
FA00000879
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Includes bibliography.