Abstract
Strictly clinical perspectives on domestic abuse focus on the psychological wellbeing of the victim and the structural factors of victimization, resulting in several unresolved questions regarding the role of public intervention. Because public intervention is the main predictor for preventing future assaults, the practical aim of this study is to increase public intervention by drawing from evolutionary psychology to identify and explain the central factors that minimize intervention. Our data show that most people express significant ambivalence and make anomalous decisions when confronted with various forms of domestic violence. We analyse a number of significant factors that decrease intervention behaviours and show how they are consistent with evolutionary theories of revenge-avoidance behaviour and cognitive mechanisms designed to avoid revenge-seeking scenarios.
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