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Sex Differences in Subjective Distress to Unfaithfulness: Testing Competing Evolutionary and Violation of Infidelity Expectations Hypotheses

Cramer, Robert Ervin, Lipinski, Ryan E., Meteer, John D., Houska, Jeremy Ashton·2008·The Journal of Social Psychology
DOI 10.3200/socp.148.4.389-406
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According to an evolutionary psychology perspective, men's and women's processing of threats to their sex-linked mate selection strategies cause sex differences in infidelity distress. An alternative account assumes that the distress results from men's and women's processing of expectation violations regarding the content of an unfaithful partner's actions with a rival. Logistic regressions supported the conclusion that the participant's sex-but not the processing of expectation violations-was the best predictor of the most distressing infidelity presented in forced-choice, mutually exclusive, and combined formats. Our results also indicated that the sex differences in infidelity distress were neither limited to using data from a forced-choice response format nor caused by the distinct inferences that men and women draw about the relation between love and sex.

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Authors
Cramer, R. E., Lipinski, R. E., Meteer, J. D., & Houska, J. A.
Affiliations
  • California State University, San Bernardino (US)
  • Ball State University (US)
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas (US)
Venue
The Journal of Social Psychology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2008-08
Volume
148
Issue
4
Pages
389-406
ISSN
  • 0022-4545 (ISSN-L)
  • 1940-1183
DOI
10.3200/socp.148.4.389-406
OpenAlex
W2129511703
Cited by
19
References
35
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2012: 3
FWCI
1.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Journal of Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Sexual Relationships
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords
infidelity, sexual infidelity, sex differences, evolutionary psychology, expectancy violation, love and sex
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Depression, Biological Evolution, Extramarital Relations, Female, Humans, Jealousy, Male, Marriage, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sexual Behavior, Sex Factors, Sexual Partners

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Cramer, R. E., Lipinski, R. E., Meteer, J. D., & Houska, J. A. (2008). Sex Differences in Subjective Distress to Unfaithfulness: Testing Competing Evolutionary and Violation of Infidelity Expectations Hypotheses. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3200/socp.148.4.389-406