A Biocultural Life History Approach to the Developmental Psychobiology of Male Aggression

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9 - A Biocultural Life History Approach to the Developmental Psychobiology of Male Aggression

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2009

Carol M. Worthman and

Ryan A. Brown

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David M. Stoff and

Elizabeth J. Susman

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Carol M. Worthman: Affiliation:
Emory University
Ryan A. Brown: Affiliation:
Emory University
David M. Stoff: Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Elizabeth J. Susman: Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University

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New Guinea, early 1930s: “Malikindjin killed her [with sorcery]…. That is Malikindjin's way.” “But later Malikindjin fell sick [with spirit revenge]. That is because everybody wants vengeance upon him. All who know anything …, they are all agreed.”

(narrated case from Bateson, 1958, pp. 64, 67)

Nigeria, early 1940s: “You shouldn't encourage him too much dear. He is too argumentative.”

(Soyinka, 1981, p. 55)

Tahiti, early 1960's: “[Shy, mamahu, people] can't look you in the eye. They don't seem to get mad easily, but you have to watch out, because if they finally do get mad they are very violent.”

(Levy, 1973, p. 286)

Botswana, 1971: “That Besa, something was wrong with his brain! I thought, ‘No, this man is a bad one.’” “I thought about how he had hit me and how I didn't like being with a man like that.” “Besa was always jealous….”

(Shostak, 1981, p. 226, 225, 309)

INTRODUCTION

Over 50 years ago, Bateson argued strenuously that the concept of individual behavior is vacuous because people act in the context of others' behavior, concluding that social psychology properly should study “the reactions of individuals to the reactions of other individuals” (Bateson, 1958, p. 175). Nonetheless, as the above quotes from his and others' ethnographies suggest, individual differences in behavior are ubiquitous and universally attributed to temperamental differences even as socialization practices are predicated on an equally universal assumption of nurture's role in behavior development.

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