Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 159Evolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorSexual Assault and Victimization StudiesPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

A synthesized (biosocial) theory of rape

Ellis, Lee·1991·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0022-006x.59.5.631
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Features of contemporary theories of rape are integrated with information on neurohormonal variables to formulate a synthesized theory of rape. It consists of four propositions: (a) Rape is motivated by two largely unlearned drives (a sex drive and a drive to possess and control). (b) Natural selection has favored men who more readily learn forced copulatory tactics than women and women who are more inclined than men to resist forced copulations. (c) The tendency to use forced copulatory tactics is largely a function of the strength of an individual's sex drive plus estimates of the probability of success minus the probability of being punished, divided by sensitivity to aversive stimuli. (d) Genes that have evolved primarily on the Y chromosome affect neurohormonal functioning in ways that alter the strength of the sex drive and sensitivity to aversive stimuli and thereby affect individual probabilities of committing rape.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1037/0022-006x.59.5.631

Cites

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cited by

Items 101–140 of 140

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Ellis, L.
Affiliations
Minot State University (US)
Corresponding author
Ellis, Lee
Venue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1991
Volume
59
Issue
5
Pages
631-642
ISSN
  • 0022-006X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2117
DOI
10.1037/0022-006x.59.5.631
OpenAlex
W2020720754
Cited by
159
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
21.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Keywords
rape, sexual assault, biosocial theory, sexual desire, forced copulation, natural selection, Y chromosome genes, sex differences, aversive stimuli, evolutionary psychology
MeSH terms
Aggression, Animals, Brain, Copulation, Drive, Humans, Libido, Rape, Sexual Behavior, Gonadal Steroid Hormones

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.