Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice

Defense of reproductive choice is an important motivation in women's self-protection psychology for which the “staying alive theory” cannot fully account. Evidence indicates that some elements of women's self-protection psychology function to protect reproductive choice rather than surviva...

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Published inThe Behavioral and brain sciences Vol. 45; p. e143
Main Authors McDonald, Melissa M., James, Rachel M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2022
Subjects
Behavior
Females
Males
Menstruation
Motivation
Murders & murder attempts
Open Peer Commentary
Rape
Sex crimes
True crime
Women
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Summary:Defense of reproductive choice is an important motivation in women's self-protection psychology for which the “staying alive theory” cannot fully account. Evidence indicates that some elements of women's self-protection psychology function to protect reproductive choice rather than survival, or may be equally well explained by either motivation. Integrating perspectives will result in greater explanatory breadth and precision in theory testing.
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ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X22000486