Exploring the Relationship Between Misogyny and Anger among Chinese Men: An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective

Abstract

Misogyny refers to the hatred or dislike of women, encompassing prejudice or discrimination against women. Misogyny is a kind of social phenomenon and social problem. Misogyny in China has a considerable scale, but the research on misogyny is still in an immature stage, and the causes and mechanisms behind this are still unclear. It is needed to study the mechanism behind misogyny. This study aims to explore the relationship between misogyny and anger from an evolutionary psychological perspective. If men receive signals from women that they are insulted, hurt, ignored, etc., which will increase their anger degree, they are more likely to express hatred and discrimination against women, and even express violent and harmful behaviors against women (Rottweiler & Gill, 2021). However, men with high levels of anger are not necessarily misogynistic. Therefore, this study amins to prove that there is a correlation between misogyny and anger, and that the correlation is non-linear growth. The study mainly adopt questionnaires to survey 500 Chinese adult men. The questionnaire is mainly divided into two parts. The first part measures the misogyny degree and anger degree of the participants to study whether there is a relationship between misogyny and anger. The second part is based on the Recalibration Theory of Anger to design three scenarios with different levels of anger for participants through text in the questionnaire, and the three scenarios is low anger, high anger and no anger, so as to explore whether the relationship between anger and misogyny is non-linear growth. This study provides a new research perspective for the future control of extreme violence, prejudice and discrimination caused by misogyny.