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Why do Men Engage in Extreme Sports?


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    Janelle Boisvert

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Sources Discussed in Video
  • Gallup, Jr., G. G. (1982). Permanent breast enlargement in human females: A sociobiological analysis. Journal of Human Evolution, 11, 597-601.
  • Bymes, J.P., Miller, D.C., & Schaffer, W.D. (1999). Gender differences in risk taking: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 125(3), 367-383.
  • Farthing, G.W. (2005). Attitudes toward heroic and nonheroic physical risk takers as mates and as friends. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 171-185.
  • Hawkes, K., & Bliege Bird, R. (2002). Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work. Evolutionary Antrhopology, 11, 58-67.

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  • Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2000). Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 81-91.
  • McAndrew, F.T. (2002). New evolutionary perspectives on altruism: Multilevel-selection and costly-signaling theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 79-82.
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