• DOI:10.1037/a0036594
Corpus ID: 147382166

Eastwood's Brawn and Einstein's Brain: An Evolutionary Account of Dominance, Prestige, and Precarious Manhood

@article{Winegard2014EastwoodsBA,
  title={Eastwood's Brawn and Einstein's Brain: An Evolutionary Account of Dominance, Prestige, and Precarious Manhood},
  author={Bo M. Winegard and Benjamin Winegard and D. Geary},
  journal={Review of General Psychology},
  year={2014},
  volume={18},
  pages={34 - 48}
}

• Bo M. Winegard, Benjamin Winegard, D. Geary
• Published 2014
• Sociology
• Review of General Psychology

Researchers have theorized that manhood is a precarious social status that requires effort to achieve. Because of this, men whose manhood is threatened react with a variety of compensatory behaviors and cognitions such as aggression, support for hierarchy, low tolerance for homosexuality, and support for war. In the following article, we argue that the precarious status of manhood is a result of evolutionary propensities and cultural forces. Specifically, men evolved in dominance hierarchies… Expand