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A Review of Sex Differences in Sexual Jealousy, Including Self-Report Data, Psychophysiological Responses, Interpersonal Violence, and Morbid Jealousy

Harris, Christine R.·2003·Personality and Social Psychology Review
DOI 10.1207/s15327957pspr0702_102-128
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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
DOI
10.1207/s15327957pspr0702_102-128
OpenAlex
W2074804043
Cited by
344
References
131
Citations by year
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FWCI
19.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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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