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Post by Lone Wanderer on Mar 22, 2019 8:49:36 GMT
Male and female serial killers tend to choose their victims and commit their crimes in different ways, which may be due to thousands of years of psychological evolution, according to researchers. The researchers found that male serial killers tend to "hunt" their victims, who are often strangers to them. Female serial killers tend to "gather" their victims -- targeting people around them who they may already know, often for financial gain."Historically, men hunted animals as prey and women gathered nearby resources, like grains and plants, for food," Harrison said. "As an evolutionary psychologist, I wondered if something left over from these old roles could be affecting how male and female serial killers choose their victims." "Women were more likely to be given nicknames that denote their gender -- like Jolly Jane or Tiger Woman," Harrison said. "While men were more likely to be given nicknames that suggest the brutality of their crimes, like the Kansas City Slasher." "Evolution doesn't mean you're predetermined to do certain things or act a certain way," Harrison said. "It means that it may be possible to make predictions about behavior based on our evolutionary past. In this case, I do believe that these behaviors are reminiscent of sex-specific behaviors or assignments in the ancestral environment. And perhaps we can understand this better through an evolutionary lens." Source and full articlewww.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320110622.htm
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 22, 2019 8:59:29 GMT
I have a degree in Criminal Justice and studied criminology. Most male serial killers kill for reasons. They are often sexually sadistic and get off on the power rush of murdering their victims. Women don't have the same type of burning lustful physicAL sex drive that men have so often they do murder people for financial gain. Aileen Wuornos, for instance, killed the men to rob them.
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Post by AmericanCharm on Mar 22, 2019 9:45:18 GMT
I’m absolutely fascinated by serial killers.
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Mar 22, 2019 16:05:06 GMT
I’m absolutely fascinated by serial killers. Some of them were/are really smart. Wasted potentials and minds.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Apr 8, 2019 17:58:53 GMT
There are no serial killers among women. Serial killers are men only.
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Post by Elizabeth on Apr 8, 2019 18:59:45 GMT
Mostly men kill. I think it's their way of showing power since they feel little and weak in real life and want to feel like a big boy now. Women kill because....hmmm...boredom? Money? Annoyance? Women don't really have a sound reason I think. Just my 2 cents.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Apr 8, 2019 20:44:02 GMT
Mostly men kill. I think it's their way of showing power since they feel little and weak in real life and want to feel like a big boy now. Women kill because....hmmm...boredom? Money? Annoyance? Women don't really have a sound reason I think. Just my 2 cents. I have had a hard, and really quarrel discussion with a girl recently. We've been arguing about exactly this - an aggression of men on/to women & animals. She said that it was not OK to harm animals, while the argument of mine was that it wasn't possible to avoid to cause harm, and also that causing harm was a way for a man to become a man. In the past men went hunting, and they needed in being strong, and got along with weapons. After a time, men became chiefs, elders, kings, etc, and their aggression had been written to norms. Using rage, aggression, force were right and really masculine; there were no countries for men having no skills with weapons. So, if a man wanted to be a man he should use his strength. Some men who couldn't do his warrior routine, became wife beaters, and started to use their wives as baits for beating. Children become an object of father's training too. Men's rage increased highly. Then become a day of a woman. A young feminist dominatrix woman with a steel whip. Men wanted her, but she didn't give 'em what they wanted. Instead of this, she beat them hardly. Men had gotten a point, they had have a pleasure they never had... ...All right, all right, it was just a piece of fantasy. Actually, women are no needed in being killers, because it's not easy. A serial killer is man who has barely the middle intelligence level, and patience, and the strength, and courage. Such killers are warriors hiding in shadows.
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