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Researchers, led by Daniel Provenzano from the University of Windsor in Canada, found that [[bullying]] probably evolved as a behavior for men to show their strength and assert dominance, while signaling to women that they are good prospective mates who will provide for their needs and offspring. Professionals dealing with young adults need to recognize the role of sexual motivation in bullying, suggests Provenzano. <ref>https://www.springer.com/psychology/personality+&+social+psychology/journal/40806</ref> | Researchers, led by Daniel Provenzano from the University of Windsor in Canada, found that [[bullying]] probably evolved as a behavior for men to show their strength and assert dominance, while signaling to women that they are good prospective mates who will provide for their needs and offspring. Professionals dealing with young adults need to recognize the role of sexual motivation in bullying, suggests Provenzano. <ref>https://www.springer.com/psychology/personality+&+social+psychology/journal/40806</ref> | ||
An article describing two studies conducted by Volk ''et al.'' (2015) concluded that "taken together, results from the present study offer mixed, but generally positive, support for our hypothesis that bullying is an evolutionarily adaptive behavior" and noted that "The links between bullying and dating/sexual outcomes are (for the most part) not simply a function of common variance with attractiveness and age or sex, although those variables do play a role in dating and sexual behavior" therefore bullying increased adolescent males mating success independent of other factors like looks, social desirability, etc. The authors advised that "In the meantime, bullying research and interventions should be increasingly cognizant of the fact that bullying may indeed be, at least in part, due to evolved mental adaptations that predispose some individuals to harm others to obtain personal goals. These goals may go beyond social dominance and extend specifically toward obtaining sexual partners."<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704915613909</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321812090_Do_Bullies_Have_More_Sex_The_Role_of_Personality</ref> | |||
Another study by Dane ''et al.''(2017) found that "higher Extraversion and higher bullying perpetration significantly predicted having had sex" (among the adolescent participants in the study, albeit relying on self-reported data) and '''"number of sexual partners was significantly positively correlated with bullying''' ... in both samples" (correlation of r=.34 with bullying and number of sexual partners among older adolescents). | |||
Thus it seems apparent that a tendency towards bullying is seen as an attractive trait by a significant number of women(at least adolescent girls), and this may even be independent of the traits such a tendency displays (i.e 'dark triad' traits, higher level of social dominance.) | |||
==Women choose psychopaths== | ==Women choose psychopaths== | ||