Yaïr: "Tövbe haşa": Tövbe haşa Killing a wife imposes a cost on the perpetrator as well as the victim, as the husband has essentially destroyed any access to a reproductively valuable asset. Killing a wife, therefore, seems genuinely puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. Wilson and Daly (1996) explain this puzzle by proposing that violence is a means of deterrence. Threats require credibility to be effective. Men, according to this logic, sometimes use violence to enhance the credibility of their threats. The violence, and even killing, seems quite counter to the man’s self-interest. But if the violence increases the credibility of the threats, then it can pay off, on average, when the man is able to subsequently use threats without resorting to actual violence.

Killing a wife imposes a cost on the perpetrator as well as the victim, as the husband has essentially destroyed any access to a reproductively valuable asset. Killing a wife, therefore, seems genuinely puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. Wilson and Daly (1996) explain this puzzle by proposing that violence is a means of deterrence. Threats require credibility to be effective. Men, according to this logic, sometimes use violence to enhance the credibility of their threats. The violence, and even killing, seems quite counter to the man’s self-interest. But if the violence increases the credibility of the threats, then it can pay off, on average, when the man is able to subsequently use threats without resorting to actual violence.

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Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind David Buss

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