Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager-farmers: Testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 438-448

  Stieglitz, Jonathan ^a   Gurven, Michael ^b   Kaplan, Hillard ^a   Winking, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Infidelity; Jealousy; Marriage; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865277745     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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