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A Review of Sex Differences in Sexual Jealousy, Including Self-Report Data, Psychophysiological Responses, Interpersonal Violence, and Morbid Jealousy
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The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Therefore, men should be primarily jealous over a mate's sexual infidelity and women over a mate's emotional infidelity. Five lines of evidence have been offered as support: self report responses, psychophysiological data, domestic violence (including spousal abuse and homicide), and morbid jealousy cases. This article reviews each line of evidence and finds only one hypothetical measure consistent with the hypothesis. This, however, is contradicted by a variety of other measures (including reported reactions to real infidelity). A meta-analysis of jealousy-inspired homicides, taking into account base rates for murder, found no evidence that jealousy disproportionately motivates men to kill. The findings are discussed from a social-cognitive theoretical perspective.
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- Authors
- Harris, C. R.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Harris, Christine R.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-05
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 102-128
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W2074804043
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 131
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- FWCI
- 19.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH061626, R01-MH61626)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- sexual jealousy, emotional jealousy, sex differences, cuckoldry, resource loss, sexual infidelity, emotional infidelity, domestic violence, marital violence, morbid jealousy, psychophysiological responses, social cognitive theory
- MeSH terms
- Affective Symptoms, Arousal, Extramarital Relations, Female, Gender Identity, Homicide, Humans, Jealousy, Male, Domestic Violence
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