A model of romantic jealousy

White, Gregory L.

doi:10.1007/bf00992549

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“…Henz, 1996), educational background can be taken as an indicator of one's developmental conditions: For example, the jealousy modules of our participants without high-school degree were much more likely to develop in an environment with attenuated relationship stability (e.g. White, 1981;Bumpass, Martin, & Sweet, 1991) and increased female competition for good mates (Campbell, 1995(Campbell, , 2004, both of which imply a greater risk of paternal investment loss. If the jealousy module is conditionally adaptive, it should increase female emotional jealousy in such environments.…”

Section: Environmental Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie, 1996;MerriamWebster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1993). Jealousy can be particularly intense when a committed sexual relationship is threatened by a rival ('romantic jealousy'; White, 1981;White & Mullen, 1989). In recent years, sex differences in romantic jealousy have been hotly debated, arguably because they serve as a prominent testing ground for an evolutionary psychological approach to sex differences in social cognition and emotion (recently e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evidence for conditional sex differences in emotional but not in sexual jealousy at the automatic level of cognitive processing

Penke

Asendorpf

2008

Eur J Pers

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The two evolutionary psychological hypotheses that men react more jealous than women to sexual infidelity and women react more jealous than men to emotional infidelity are currently controversial because of apparently inconsistent results. We suggest that these inconsistencies can be resolved when the two hypotheses are evaluated separately and when the underlying cognitive processes are considered. We studied jealousy with forced-choice decisions and emotion ratings in a general population sample of 284 adults aged 20-30 years using six infidelity dilemmas and recordings of reaction times. The sex difference for emotional jealousy existed for decisions under cognitive constraint, was also evident in the decision speed, increased for faster decisions, and was stronger for participants with lower education. No evidence for a sex difference in sexual jealousy was found. Our results support the view of a specific female sensitivity to emotional infidelity that canalizes the development of an adaptive sex difference in emotional jealousy conditional to the sociocultural environment.

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Section: Environmental Influencesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evidence for conditional sex differences in emotional but not in sexual jealousy at the automatic level of cognitive processing

Penke

Asendorpf

2008

Eur J Pers

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“…This scale was developed by White (1981) to assess respondent's view of himself or herself as "jealous or not jealous in the current relationship." The instrument consists of six questions, some measured on a 7-point Likert scale and the other on a 5-point Likert scale.…”

Section: Level Of Marital Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Differentiation and Intimate Partner Violence

Likcani

2017

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…In two studies, Parrott and Smith found that when affective intensity was statistically controlled, and when envy-and jealousy-related situational elements were factorially manipulated, many differences could indeed be found. These differences corresponded closely to the traditional envy/jealousy distinction, according to which the former is related to social comparison and the latter to romantic rivalry (Sabini & Silver, 1982;White, 1981): Feelings of inferiority, longing, and resentment were relatively more salient in envy, and feelings of distrust, anger, and fear of loss were more characteristic of jealousy.…”

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