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Individual differences and the adaptiveness of patriarchal ideology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Kevin MacDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, California State University–Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901 [email protected] www.csulb.edu/nkmacd

Abstract

Campbell's target article significantly advances the field but fails to give adequate weight to individual differences. Moreover, there is no convincing rationale why males gain by making females less aggressive than they would otherwise be. It is also as likely that patriarchal ideology serves women's interests by canalizing genetic influences on individual differences within a more adaptively circumscribed range as it is to counter their interests by preventing them from challenging male hegemony.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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