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Emotional reactions to infidelity
Abstract
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 within-subjects 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.
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“Specific emotional manifestations of infidelity-based trauma include feelings of extreme anger, betrayal, insecurity, rage, shame, guilt, jealousy and sadness [24,31,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40].”
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“This is further supported by findings from Shackelford et al., which found that female participants reported greater symptoms of nausea and physical illness when asked to imagine their partner as unfaithful under experimental settings [40].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shackelford, T. K., LeBlanc, G. J., & Drass, E.
- Affiliations
- Florida Atlantic University (US)
- ORCID
- Shackelford, Todd K.
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2000-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 643-659
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2086535278
- Cited by
- 208
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- infidelity, sexual infidelity, emotional infidelity, emotional responses, jealousy, emotion components, sex differences
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