{"id":53,"date":"2008-03-11T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/11\/explaining-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:11:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:11:56","slug":"explaining-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/11\/explaining-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>The number of times Buss used domestic violence as a manifestation of sexual jealousy in males is troubling. He does this to explain how abusive behavior has evolved but in the end seems to provide an excuse; that the abusive behavior is somehow beyond the batterers control particularly when he is placed in certain environments. I am aware that my discomfort may just be knee-jerk political correctness of the kind that suppresses scientific discovery etc. etc. But by including snippets of a man who confesses to killing his wife after she taunts him (p. 306) aren&#8217;t you trying to make us sympathize with him, the murderer? After all, you haven&#8217;t provided any other context that would suggest anything but that his ancestors made him do it. Evolutionary psychology may indeed provide great insight into how we behave, but I think that it shouldn\u2019t rise to the level of being a motivating force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The number of times Buss used domestic violence as a manifestation of sexual jealousy in males is troubling. He does this to explain how abusive behavior has evolved but in the end seems to provide an excuse; that the abusive behavior is somehow beyond the batterers control particularly when he is placed in certain environments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}