Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution or Social Construction?

Hupka, Ralph B.; Bank, Adam L.

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“…These findings have been replicated extensively in the U.S. using hypothetical scenarios (Brase et al 2004;Buunk et al 1996;Hupka and Bank 1996;Levy and Kelly 2010;Murphy et al 2006;Shackelford et al 2002). In a meta-analysis based on 72 samples, including both college-age and adult samples and unpublished studies, Hofhansl et al (2004) reported a moderate effect size of .64 for overall gender differences.…”

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The Effects of Sample Characteristics and Experience with Infidelity on Romantic Jealousy

2011

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Past research has suggested that men are more upset by imagined sexual than emotional infidelity, and women are more upset by imagined emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity. However, experience with infidelity, methodology, and age and gender of the sample may help to explain inconsistent results. Two hundred ninety-four English-speaking undergraduate students and 325 noncollege adults in a large mid-Atlantic urban area of the U. S. completed forced-choice or continuous-scale anonymous questionnaires regarding jealousy over a mate's hypothetical infidelity. Chi-square and MANOVA analyses replicated previous findings of the expected gender difference in all hypothetical forced-choice scenarios. However, results for those participants who reported experience with actual infidelity demonstrated little support for the traditional evolutionary model, as there were no gender differences in which aspect of hypothetical infidelity was reported to be more distressing, and no gender differences at the college level in terms of which aspect of infidelity received the greatest focus. These findings, extrapolated from both undergraduates and adults and accounting for the impact of actual, primed memory of experience of infidelity on hypothetical jealousy scenarios, raise important questions about the validity of hypothetical scenarios of jealousy as proxies for real reactions to actual infidelity. The results of the present study suggest that the lack of a consistent, replicable gender difference across the lifespan may be explained by two related factors: age and actual experience with infidelity.

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“…Since that time, debate has focused largely on the existence of these possible gender differences, disputing questions of theoretical soundness (e.g. Buss et al 1996;DeSteno and Salovey 1996;Harris and Christenfeld 1996;Hupka and Bank 1996) and study methodology (e.g. DeSteno et al 2002;Hofhansl et al 2004).…”

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The Effects of Sample Characteristics and Experience with Infidelity on Romantic Jealousy

2011

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“…Emotional infidelity occurs when one's partner channels resources such as romantic love, time, and attention to someone else. Researchers working from other theoretical perspectives, including social role theory and socialisation-based models, also have documented these sex differences in emotional reactions to infidelity (e.g., DeSteno & Salovey, 1996;Hupka & Bank, 1996).…”

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Emotional reactions to infidelity

Shackelford

LeBlanc

Drass

2000

Cognition & Emotion

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We sought to identify emotional reactions to a partner's sexual infidelity and emotional infidelity. In a preliminary study, 53 participants nominated emotional reactions to a partner's sexual and emotional infidelity. In a second study, 655 participants rated each emotion for how likely it was to occur following sexual and emotional infidelity. Principal components analysis revealed 15 emotion components, including Hostile/Vengeful, Depressed, and Sexually aroused. We conducted repeated measures analyses of variance on the 15 components, with participant sex as the between-subjects factor and infidelity type as the withinsubjects factor. A main effect for sex obtained for 9 components. For example, men scored higher on Homicidal/Suicidal, whereas women scored higher on Undesirable/Insecure. A main effect for infidelity type obtained for 12 components. For example, participants endorsed Nauseated/Repulsed as more likely to follow sexual infidelity and Undesirable/Insecure as more likely to follow emotional infidelity. Discussion addresses limitations of this research, and highlights the need for an integrative theory of emotional reactions to infidelity.Marriage occurs in every known culture (Brown, 1991;Epstein & Guttman, 1984;Vandenberg, 1972). So, too, does infidelity. Estimates of infidelity among American married couples range from 26% to 75% (Buss, 1994;Hite, 1987;Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948; Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Kebhard, 1953). Infidelity is not confined to American or even to Western marriages. In a study of 160 cultures, infidelity was the most frequently cited reason for divorce (Betzig, 1989).Infidelity can have destructive consequences. Suspicion of a partner's infidelity elicits jealousy in men and in women (Buss & Shackelford, 1997;Daly & Wilson, 1988). Sexual jealousy can have particularly disastrous consequences when elicited in men. The most frequent cause of wife-battering COGNITION AND EMOTION, 2000, 14 (5), 643-659 Please send correspondenc e and requests for reprints to Todd K. Shackelford, Florida Atlantic University, Division of Science-Psychology, 2912 College Avenue, Davie, Florida 33314, USA; e-mail: tshackel@fau.edu .The authors thank April Bleske, David Buss, Martie Haselton, Dennis Ward, and Viviana Weekes-Shackelfor d for helpful discussions of this research. Ó 2000 Psychology Press Ltdhttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/02699931.html and wife-killing is male sexual jealousy (Daly, Wilson, & Weghorst, 1982;Wilson & Daly, 1992). Male sexual jealousy also is the cause of many husband-killings. In a sample of 47 murders precipitated by a jealous man, nine of the murdered were men killed in self-defence by women accused of infidelity (Daly et al., 1982).Infidelity is a significant theoretical issue. From an evolutionary perspective (Buss, Larsen, Westen, & Semmelroth, 1992;Buss & Shackelford, 1997), infidelity signals the diversion of important reproductive resources. From an equity perspective (Walster, Walster, & Perscheid, 1978), infidelity signals inequities in a relatio...

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“…Desde una perspectiva cultural (DeSteno y Salovey, 1996;DeSteno, Bartlett, Braverman y Salovey, 2002;DeSteno, Valdesolo, y Bartlett, 2006); Harris, 2000;2003a;2003b;Harris y Christenfeld, 1996a;1996b;Hupka, 1981;Hupka y Bank, 1996) se han ofrecido explicaciones alternativas que sitúan el origen de tales diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en el proceso de socialización diferencial y en la influencia social y cultural. Las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres serían explicables desde las diferentes adscripciones de unos y otros a las normas y roles de género dominantes en un contexto ideológico determinado.…”

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Jealousy and emotion: how partners react to infidelity

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Resumen AbstractEsta investigación está orientada a conocer las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en las situaciones desencadenantes de celos y cómo estas reacciones son afectadas por ciertas características de las relaciones de pareja. 372 personas (250 mujeres y 122 hombres) que han participado en esta investigación responden ante una hipotética infidelidad de su pareja (infidelidad emocional e infidelidad sexual) con un supuesto rival y a un cuestionario sobre ciertos aspectos de su relación de pareja.Los resultados revelan que las mujeres experimentan una mayor intensidad emocional que los hombres cuando piensan sobre la infidelidad de su pareja, ya sea emocional o sexual. No hay diferencias importantes entre hombres y mujeres en cuanto al tipo de infidelidad que más les molesta: la infidelidad emocional. Además se ha analizado la influencia del tipo de relación de pareja que mantienen los participantes en la experiencia emocional provocada por la infidelidad. This present study explores the differences between women's and men's responses to (hypothetical) infidelity, and how these responses are influenced by

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Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution or Social Construction?

Cited by 39 publications

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The Effects of Sample Characteristics and Experience with Infidelity on Romantic Jealousy

The Effects of Sample Characteristics and Experience with Infidelity on Romantic Jealousy

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Jealousy and emotion: how partners react to infidelity

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