lovely bones
ENC 1102-19M
26 March 2013
The Lovely Bones:
An Annotated Bibliography
Kaighobadi, Farnaz, Todd K. Shackelford, and Aaron T. Goetz. "From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men’s Partner-directed Violence." Review of General Psychology 13.4 (2009): 327-34. Academic Search Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. The reaction to an enormous increase in female-directed violent acts in relationships has sky rocketed. If you notice in more modern literature, like The Lovely Bones, they have been dedicated and directed towards the investigation or findings of horrific crimes performed by men. Some evolutionary psychologists provide a structure of what they consider to be partner-directed violence. The forms they came up with include insults, homicide, physical violence and sexual tension. Psychologists suggest that a reason why men may resort to violent acts on women include the doubt of fatherhood. The article states, “They hypothesized that men’s personality traits may interact with situational contexts that trigger male sexual jealousy to predict intimate partner violence (Kaighobandi 1). It can cause jealousy, mostly sexual, which eventually can encourage the violent behaviors.
Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia O., and Caterina Keplinger. "Murder for Pleasure: Impacts of Plot Complexity and Need for Cognition on Mystery Enjoyment." Journal of Media Psychology 20.3 (2008): 117-28. Academic Search Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. In this article, the authors provided an experiment investigating the difficulty of presenting the signs before and after a crime has been committed in a fiction story. In this experiment, 154 participants were given a brief murder story that was divided into four segments. The readers were told to designate any suspicion and pleasure you felt after reading each segment. After the research was collected and analyzed, they reported an overall sense to enjoyment when they read this murder story. When the data was
26 March 2013
The Lovely Bones:
An Annotated Bibliography
Kaighobadi, Farnaz, Todd K. Shackelford, and Aaron T. Goetz. "From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men’s Partner-directed Violence." Review of General Psychology 13.4 (2009): 327-34. Academic Search Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. The reaction to an enormous increase in female-directed violent acts in relationships has sky rocketed. If you notice in more modern literature, like The Lovely Bones, they have been dedicated and directed towards the investigation or findings of horrific crimes performed by men. Some evolutionary psychologists provide a structure of what they consider to be partner-directed violence. The forms they came up with include insults, homicide, physical violence and sexual tension. Psychologists suggest that a reason why men may resort to violent acts on women include the doubt of fatherhood. The article states, “They hypothesized that men’s personality traits may interact with situational contexts that trigger male sexual jealousy to predict intimate partner violence (Kaighobandi 1). It can cause jealousy, mostly sexual, which eventually can encourage the violent behaviors.
Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia O., and Caterina Keplinger. "Murder for Pleasure: Impacts of Plot Complexity and Need for Cognition on Mystery Enjoyment." Journal of Media Psychology 20.3 (2008): 117-28. Academic Search Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. In this article, the authors provided an experiment investigating the difficulty of presenting the signs before and after a crime has been committed in a fiction story. In this experiment, 154 participants were given a brief murder story that was divided into four segments. The readers were told to designate any suspicion and pleasure you felt after reading each segment. After the research was collected and analyzed, they reported an overall sense to enjoyment when they read this murder story. When the data was