Temptation and Threat: Extradyadic Relations and Jealousy

Buunk, Abraham P.; Dijkstra, Pieternel

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606632.030

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“…Men and women reported equal amounts of overall jealousy: M ¼ 61.77 and M ¼ 69.48, respectively, t(74) ¼ 1.29, ns. This is in line with previous research on jealousy and sex differences (Buunk & Dijkstra, 2006) and it appears that even when unconsciously evoked, men and women do not differ in the amount of jealousy they feel. However, male and female jealous responses were moderated by different variables.…”

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Jealousy in the blink of an eye: Jealous reactions following subliminal exposure to rival characteristics

Massar

Buunk

Dechesne

2008

Euro J Social Psych

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In the present experiment it was investigated whether the evaluation of rivals could be an unconscious process, engaged in automatically whenever a rival is present. To this end, participants were subliminally primed with words relating to rival characteristics after which they read a jealousy inducing scenario and their jealousy was assessed. It was hypothesized that for women, their self-reported mate value would act as a moderator on the effect the rival characteristics would have on jealousy. For men, it was expected that their satisfaction with their current relationship would act as a moderator. The results confirmed the expectations: women with low mate value reported more overall jealousy, but women with high mate value were more jealous after priming with attractiveness words. Men with high relationship satisfaction reported more overall jealousy than men with low relationship satisfaction, and especially after priming with social dominance words.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Jealousy in the blink of an eye: Jealous reactions following subliminal exposure to rival characteristics

Massar

Buunk

Dechesne

2008

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Cognitive jealousy represents a person’s rational or irrational thoughts, worries, and suspicions concerning a partner’s infidelity (e.g., I believe my partner may be seeing someone else), whereas emotional jealousy refers to a person’s feelings of upset in response to a jealousy-evoking situation (e.g., I would be very upset if my partner became involved with someone else). Alternatively, jealousy expression refers to the different behavioral reactions, manifestations, or coping methods one uses to deal with feeling jealous (Buunk & Dijkstra, 2001, 2006; Guerrero, Andersen, Jorgensen, Spitzberg, & Eloy, 1995; Pfeiffer & Wong, 1989). Behavioral jealousy involves detective/protective measures a person takes when relationship rivals (real or imagined) are perceived to be a threat (e.g., going through the partner’s belongings, looking through the partner’s text messages or e-mails).…”

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The Price of Distrust: Trust, Anxious Attachment, Jealousy, and Partner Abuse

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Trust is essential to the development of healthy, secure, and satisfying relationships (Simpson, 2007a). Attachment styles provide a theoretical framework for understanding how individuals respond to partner behaviors that either confirm or violate trust (Hazan & Shaver, 1994). The current research aimed to identify how trust and attachment anxiety might interact to predict different types of jealousy and physical and psychological abuse. We expected that when experiencing lower levels of trust, anxiously attached individuals would report higher levels of both cognitive and behavioral jealousy as well as partner abuse perpetration. Participants in committed romantic relationships (N = 261) completed measures of trust, attachment anxiety and avoidance, jealousy, and physical and psychological partner abuse in a cross-sectional study. Moderation results largely supported the hypotheses: Attachment anxiety moderated the association between trust and jealousy, such that anxious individuals experienced much higher levels of cognitive and behavioral jealousy when reporting lower levels of trust. Moreover, attachment anxiety moderated the association between trust and nonphysical violence. These results suggest that upon experiencing distrust in one’s partner, anxiously attached individuals are more likely to become jealous, snoop through a partner’s belongings, and become psychologically abusive. The present research illustrates that particularly for anxiously attached individuals, distrust has cascading effects on relationship cognitions and behavior, and this should be a key area of discussion during therapy.

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“…Moral norms for exclusivity in romantic relationships dictate that when partners have a monogamous agreement, they must explicitly change this agreement or end their relationship before pursuing other sexual partners (Battaglia, Richard, Datteri, & Lord, 1998). Despite the general disapproval of extra-dyadic sex across cultures (Buunk & Dijkstra, 2006a), sexual infidelity is common, with one fourth (or more) of adults report having been sexually unfaithful to their monogamous partner (Lehmiller, 2015;Owen, Rhoades, Stanley, & Fincham, 2010;Swan & Thompson, 2016). Consistent with an MFT framework, we predicted that participants would judge a character's actions as less moral if the character had sex with a new partner before formally ending the relationship, compared to ending the relationship first.…”

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Moral judgment toward relationship betrayals and those who commit them

Selterman

Moors

Koleva

2018

Personal Relationships

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In three experimental studies (total N = 1,056), we examined moral judgments toward relationship betrayals, and how these judgments depended on whether characters and their actions were perceived to be pure and loyal compared to the level of harm caused. In Studies 1 and 2, the focus was on confessing a betrayal, whereas in Study 3, the focus was on the act of sexual infidelity. Perceptions of harm/care were inconsistently and less strongly associated with moral judgment toward the behavior or the character, relative to perceptions of purity and loyalty, which emerged as key predictors of moral judgment across all studies. Our findings demonstrate that a diversity of cognitive factors play a key role in the moral perception of relationship betrayals.

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Temptation and Threat: Extradyadic Relations and Jealousy

Cited by 52 publications

References 134 publications

Jealousy in the blink of an eye: Jealous reactions following subliminal exposure to rival characteristics

Jealousy in the blink of an eye: Jealous reactions following subliminal exposure to rival characteristics

The Price of Distrust: Trust, Anxious Attachment, Jealousy, and Partner Abuse

Moral judgment toward relationship betrayals and those who commit them

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