PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Sexual Orientation, Interpersonal Relationship, Book Of Leviticus
10 Apr 2014
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Levy and kelly argued that jealousy over romantic affairs is not best explained sing evolutionary model of cross gender concerns of things like uncertainty of paternity and rearing without investing mate. They said attachment style best predicts jealousy you experience. Had people measure how upsetting they thought it was if partner cheated emotionally or physically. Secure, preoccupied and fearful people find emotional cheating more upsetting. Secure people are upset by it because they have a working model saying people won"t do those things to them and emotional cheating is a bad thing. Everyone found both upsetting to some extent but dismissing type was unlikely to find emotional more upsetting less than 50%. Normative for dismissing people to not view emotional more upsetting than sexual cheating. Sexual cheating: men always find it significantly more upsetting than women uncertainty of paternity. Dismissing gender difference still significant but these people in men and women find it more upsetting than they did in emotional.
