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An individual’s reputation refers to knowledge others share about that individual. Aggression can be used to manage one’s reputation or influence the reputation of others.
Introduction
Research suggests that people are generally concerned with how aggressive other individuals are. For example, researchers have shown that people are good at detecting angry facial expressions (Hansen and Hansen 1988), can form first impressions of an individual’s aggressiveness after looking at their face for 0.01 s (Willis and Todorov 2006), and usually judge people on warmth before judging them on other traits (Fiske et al. 2007). Furthermore, people (especially men) also seem interested in displaying their own aggressive tendencies. For instance, experiments illustrate that men may act aggressively to assert their manhood when it is challenged (Bosson et al. 2009). Also, in...
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Keller, V.N. (2017). Reputation as a Context for Men’s Aggression Against Men. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1423-1
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