Biological Sex Differences In Behavior And Violence

As they grow older though they development different socialization, cognitive, personality, and emotional skills. Males and females socialization affect their development. Females tend to have a closer relationship with their parents, where the males like to be independent. With the females developing a strong relationship with the parents it helps them create self-control, which deters them from wanting to commit delinquent acts. Females may have self-control, but they tend to blame themselves for all their faults. With males wanting to be more independent, it shows their aggression and anger. Men typically have more aggression because their “right brain” modulates more aggression because males have bigger heads then females, which is why they can produce more anger than females. Sounds silly that just because males have bigger heads then females mean they can produce more anger. Females have aggression as well but have a stronger attitude towards hiding their aggression. Cognitive differences show in a female or males childhood. As females grow up they normally walk and speak earlier than males. For females being able to speak earlier than males allows them to have better pronunciation and read better. Yeah, yeah females are more suitable then men when it comes to speaking and reading but males dominate us having clearly eye vision and are better at math. Which makes sense because there are more

When males are 20-25 years old, the highest category for committing a crime, they have no other ways to show females how manly they are other then fighting and committing crimes. I think the reason why older males don’t commit more crimes compared to the younger generation is because older folk have other ways to show their manliness like their job, how much money they have, or the kind of car that they drive. That being said crime has nothing to do with biology, but it comes down to men trying to show how powerful they are in an attempt to “woo” a female. Concerning the fact that males and females sharing the same environment but males being “more violent”, I think the reason is because males aren’t as protected as females are. During high school kids always hear about fathers or brothers who will protect their child or sibling from anyone that hurts them in any way. You never hear a sister or a mother saying that about their

There has been extensive amounts of research on the human processes that involve the brain. An increasing amount of studies determined differences, in regards to the brain, both structurally and chemically between the two genders. In recent years, a number of neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural bases of aggression and violent behaviors. To study the development of aggression, as well as the reasons behind it, is critical as aggressive behaviors are often associated with problematic outcomes such as delinquency, substance abuse, criminal offences and related problems of psychosocial malfunction (Barber & Weichold 2007). One of the most profound stereotypes associated with this topic states that male individuals are predominantly more aggressive than female individuals, especially in terms of physical aggression. In order to understand the differences in such behaviors, it is crucial to understand the origin of neural anatomy in aggression and violent behaviors. There has been significant progress in the understanding of the area of which men and women differ in their biopsychological processes.

Trait theories explain domestic violence by addressing traits that are “stable ways of perceiving, thinking about, and behaving towards the environment (in this case a spouse or family member)” (Cullen, Agnew, Wilcox, p.40, 2014). These traits, biological and psychological, are outside of the offender’s control and can explain why some individuals commit crime, but others do not (Lecture). The biological and psychological traits do not directly lead to domestic violence, but instead can influence an individual to use domestic violence as a way for the body to handle what’s in the offender’s body (drugs, hormones, or genes) or dealing with the brain’s way of coping with emotions and mental illnesses. Trait theories as a whole explains that

There are many things that men excel at far greater than women, and things that women are naturally better at then men. In some societies around the world women are held in the same regard as men, and are expected to partake in the same activities that men do. However, the facts are that men are physically stronger, as well as being more aggressive than women, who at times have proven to be aggressive in their own way. For example, moms can be very aggressive when it comes to their children even more so then fathers in some cases. But the percentage is very few compared to males. By looking at the statistics one can come to the conclusion that men’s aggression levels, as well as their physical strength vastly surpass a women’s. Although some people might disagree with the claims that are made in this paper, I strongly urge them to remember the popular statement that “facts do not

One of the differences in the genders are the typical women enters puberty two years sooner and women life spans are five years longer. Also females carry 70% more fat and has 40% less muscle and 5 inches shorter. Furthermore female’s reveal emotions more freely, can smell weaken odors, and offers help more often. Women are also doubly vulnerable to get depression and anxiety. Her risk of developing an eating disorder is 10 times greater than the average men. Males are some 4 times more probable to commit suicide or established alcohol dependence. Man are also more likely to be diagnosed with autism, color-blindness, ADH such as a kid, and have antisocial personality disorder such as an adult. Aggression gender gap relate to harmful physical aggression and rather than indirect or verbal relational aggression such as isolation and/or spreading rumors. Person name john archer noted that based on statistical digests of dozen of studies and say that women may be slightly more likely to commit acts of relational aggression. That being like passing along malicious gossip.

The article I chose to review is “Sex differences in aggression: What are the psychological mediators?” written by Professor Anne Campbell of Durham University. To begin, she discusses research that supports the theory that men are more directly aggressive than women, but gets more specific by investigating the psychological mediators that may underlie this sex difference in aggression. She begins by discussing the effects of provocation and emotional arousal on aggression. A study conducted by Knight, Guthrie, Page and Fabes (2002) proposed that at low and intermediate levels of arousal, men’s emotions were not as greatly affected, but at intermediate and high levels of arousal they were much more affected. With that being said, these sex differences could be due to women’s lower level of impulsion or their superior aptitude for suppressing anger through aggression. Campbell states that the strength of fear and impulse are likely to be the emotions on which aggression depends. The question is, do men and women differ in the strength of their anger (impulse) or in fear-related inhibition (restraint) (Campbell, 2006).

Gender socialization can thus constrain women’s and men’s social behaviors, directly (through social enforcement of norms) or indirectly (via internalization of norms) (25). In addition, conceptualizations of masculinity tend to overlap with those of power and testosterone (3, 26). These gender considerations might influence how women and men engage in behaviors in ways that matter for testosterone. When men engage in more frequent competition than women do, or in ways that accord more with masculinity norms, this may have implications for testosterone. If men, more than women, are socialized to engage in competitive behaviors such as wielding power that increase testosterone, then this may partially explain why men have higher testosterone than women.

Male participants reported that they agreed with a magnitude of 2.2222 with a standard deviation of 1.39443. The results of the study were consistent with the hypothesis that boys are more physically aggressive than girls, for the mean for male participants reporting their tendency to become involved in physically aggressive altercations with peers was higher than for female participants. However, it is important to note that the questionnaire that was used to determine the physical aggressiveness of the female and male participants when they were young may have had some weaknesses. Because it was a self-report style questionnaire, each participant may have had a different definition for the meaning of “strongly agree” and “strongly disagree,” and the participants may either have exaggerated or responded too conservatively, for perhaps they could have felt uncomfortable revealing their true responses. They could also have forgotten or simply not know how belligerent they were in their elementary years. Some other forms of gathering data could include peer assessments, which are comprised of the participants’ peers (i.e. family members) evaluating his or her aggressiveness during his/her youth years, or physically observing the behavior of elementary school children in a classroom setting. Should this study be repeated, it could be taken further to investigate the magnitude of other types of aggression in boys and girls, such as verbal aggression and indirect aggression, or evaluate whether there is a variation in the results for aggression based on gender across different age

With aggression, gender differences do exist. Men are more likely to participate in physical aggression compared to women. Although both genders equally engage in verbal abuse or aggression, women are the more emotional type, according to several research studies. According to research, biologically speaking, there are physical strength differences between men and women which heightens the notion that gender differences do in fact exist. Moreover, aggression is viewed as a trigger as a result of extreme stressors and loss of self-control (Cambell & Muncer, 1987). There are also socialcultural and evolutionary factors that play a role in aggression and gender differences, studies have

Boys have a higher rate of all three values than girls do. Violent aggression can be inherited an also where a person is located has an effect on their aggression. Group rates are a powerful predictor on boys’ aggression. Boys use violence and aggression to

Violence appeared to be a gendered act usually resulting in male over female dominance during the nineteenth century (D'Cruse 21). Within

According to Watts & Zimmerman (2002), violence against women is predominantly used to sustain the balance of terror, or as some prefers to call it, the unequal balance of power. An example is the conscious use of violence by male partners or spouses within the domestic realm to promote subordination in asserting their position

When looking at the specific numbers men are mostly the source of human violence, especially men age fifteen to twenty-nine years of age, and there are many possible explanations for the reason why young men are the leading cause of violence. David Barash offers a possible starting point in which he asserts that men have always held the positions involving killing, “or what might be called the ‘killing establishment’— soldiers, executioners, even slaughterhouse workers – is overwhelmingly male” (Barash 1). When men could no longer play the hunter role, they still would have the urge or animalistic inclination to compete or kill one another, which leads to violence, hence; men began killing each other. This leads to gender division, which Carol Adams blames on the fact that the world has always been a patriarchial system. Men have established themselves as the dominant position in the human race, and because of this feeling of the need to be dominant there have been certain roles established for the way each gender should behave. As Michael CC Adams asserts, this gender division actually encourages male violence. War is a product of man according to Adams, and that in order to end war, “we shall have to create an androgynous society in which being male does not mean a preoccupation with toughness and staying in control but includes the full range of openly expressed human feelings,

There is a strong connection between testosterone levels and violence or physical aggression to both sexes. According to Sullivan, several studies conducted with various samples of people, such as inmates, young boys, older adults, and even the university students affirm that those individuals with higher levels of testosterone exhibit more crude and ill behaviors than the frats. That is why the blood or saliva tests conducted to inmates confirms that people who have committed serious crimes, such as murder, rape or armed robbery have higher testosterone levels than the mere