Study Questions:

 

Wilson and Wilson: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Chattel

 

 

1)      What is male sexual proprietariness?

2)      What is the basis for different behavior of men and women, particularly in regard to mating?

3)      What aspects of “macho” behavior do the authors explain through their theory?

4)      How do they explain it?

5)      How does this approach differ from a theoretical perspective of gender as a social construction?

 

 

 

Robert M. Sapolsky: The Trouble with Testosterone: Will Boys Just be Boys?

 

1)      What link exists between high testosterone levels and high levels of aggression?

2)      Does testosterone cause higher aggression, or higher aggression raises testosterone levels?

3)      Why do people tend to believe more the endocrinologists than the behavioral scientists?

4)      Does it make a difference in terms of aggression levels whether a castrated individual receives 20% or 200% of testosterones that he produced before castration?

5)      What is counterintuitive about the author’s statement?

6)      How do Hyenas differ from other mammalian species?