Did you have sex with him? Do you love her? An in vivo test of sex differences in jealous interrogations

Kuhle, Barry X.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.034

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“…For instance, researchers could explore the sex difference in jealousy using physiological measures looking at people who have experienced an actual infidelity, where scripts describing the participants' actual infidelity experience would likely elicit greater arousal and demonstrate that these differences are not limited to imagined infidelities (although it is worth reiterating that studies using self-report measures have demonstrated that the sex difference in jealousy occurs in retrospective self-reports (e.g., Edlund et al 2006). Beyond this, if the ethical issues could be resolved, the best way to demonstrate this would be to look at in vivo jealousy responses (e.g., Kuhle 2011). Additionally, other physiological measures may exist that have been demonstrated to be useful in socially monogamous mammals that have not been explored in the context of the sex difference in jealousy.…”

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Affective Modification of the Startle Eyeblink Response During Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Scripts

Baschnagel

Edlund

2016

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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The sex difference in jealousy has been demonstrated to occur in response to actual experiences with infidelity, continuous measures of jealousy, as well as cross-culturally. However, to date, the evidence for physiological correlates of jealousy has been limited and mixed. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore the sex difference in jealousy using multiple physiological measures of jealousy. In our study, we demonstrate that the sex difference in jealousy occurs using self-report measures of jealousy in addition to occurring with the affective modification of startle response (but not in response to facial electromyography (EMG), skin conductance, or heart rate). As such, this study demonstrates that the sex difference in jealousy is a replicable finding that occurs when using self-report measures of jealousy in addition to manifesting itself in physiological correlates.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Affective Modification of the Startle Eyeblink Response During Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Scripts

Baschnagel

Edlund

2016

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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“…This seems especially likely to be the case for extradyadic romantic relationships which may pose a threat to the existing relationship above and beyond other activities a partner can engage in (e.g., catching a movie with a friend). For example, research has shown that when people imagine (Harris, 2000;Thompson, Zimmerman, Kulibert, & Moore, 2017) or discover (Edlund, Heider, Scherer, Farc, & Sagarin, 2006;Kuhle, 2011) a partner's extradyadic romantic involvement they often engage in behaviors like mate guarding (Buss, 2002;Buss, Shackelford, & McKibbin, 2008), and report negative emotional experiences like jealousy (AlShawaf, Conroy-Beam, Asao, & Buss, 2016; Buss 2000 for a review of research), which may help to prevent the potential loss of a romantic partner.…”

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Compersion: When Jealousy-inducing Situations Don’t (Just) Induce Jealousy

Balzarini¹,

McDonald²,

Kohut³

et al. 2020

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Emotional reactions to a partner’s extradyadic romantic interests are assumed to be negative and characterized by jealousy, an emotional state that arises over a perceived threat to one’s relationship. Yet, reactions may also be positive, and involve compersion, or taking joy in one's partner's pleasure in other sexual and relational encounters. Although some have argued that compersion is the opposite of jealousy, research has shown that compersion and jealousy are not opposing constructs, despite being treated this way in both theoretical and empirical research. Using a convenience sample of polyamorous (N = 3,530) and monogamous (N = 1,358) individuals we draw on theories of jealousy, emotional ambivalence, and emotional forecasting to examine people’s anticipated affective responses to hypothetical situations involving a partner’s extradyadic relations, and assess whether experience with having a partner engage in extradyadic relations was associated with anticipating less jealousy and more compersion. Results suggest that people in polyamorous relationships report less jealousy and more compersion with their partners, and that personal experience involving a partner’s extradyadic romantic interests predicted more compersion and less jealousy, with experience predicting greater increases in compersion among monogamous than polyamorous participants. Finally, while anticipated compersion was associated with greater relationship satisfaction, neither jealousy nor ambivalence were associated with relationship satisfaction. These results further demonstrate that individuals can experience both positive and negative reactions to a partner’s extradyadic relations, both based on actual experience and projection of responses to future events, and that real-life experiences are important in anticipating these emotions.

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“…Men and women face challenges when selecting, attracting, and retaining mates. Prior research documents robust sex differences in men’s and women’s typical mate preferences (see Schmitt, 2015 , for a review), mate retention behaviors (e.g., Lopes et al, 2017 ), and reactions to real or hypothetical partner loss (e.g., Kuhle, 2011 ). Men tend to report greater distress imagining a partner’s sexual contact with another man whereas women report greater distress from a partner’s emotional or financial investment in another woman (see Sagarin et al, 2012 , for a review).…”

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Emotional Accessibility Is More Important Than Sexual Accessibility in Evaluating Romantic Relationships – Especially for Women: A Conjoint Analysis

Wade

Mogilski

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Prior research examining mate expulsion indicates that women are more likely to expel a mate due to deficits in emotional access while men are more likely to expel a mate due to deficits in sexual access. Prior research highlights the importance of accounting for measurement limitations (e.g., the use of incremental vs. forced-choice measures) when assessing attitudes toward sexual and emotional infidelity, Sagarin et al., 2012, Wade and Brown, 2012). The present research uses conjoint analysis, a novel methodology for controlling several limitations of using continuous self-report measures in mate expulsion research. Participants (N = 181, 128 women) recruited from Bucknell University and several psychology recruitment listservs in the United States rated nine profiles that varied in three potential levels of emotional and sexual accessibility. Men were more likely to want to break up with a partner due to sexual accessibility deficits, whereas women were more likely to want to break up due to emotional accessibility deficits. However, regardless of sex, emotional inaccessibility was more likely to produce mate expulsion. These findings are consistent with prior theory and highlight the need to disentangle emotional accessibility into its constituent in-pair benefits. This research also illustrates the utility of conjoint analysis as a statistical tool for studying how humans resolve trade-offs among competing outcomes during romantic decision-making.

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Did you have sex with him? Do you love her? An in vivo test of sex differences in jealous interrogations

Cited by 40 publications

References 20 publications

Affective Modification of the Startle Eyeblink Response During Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Scripts

Affective Modification of the Startle Eyeblink Response During Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Scripts

Compersion: When Jealousy-inducing Situations Don’t (Just) Induce Jealousy

Emotional Accessibility Is More Important Than Sexual Accessibility in Evaluating Romantic Relationships – Especially for Women: A Conjoint Analysis

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