PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Typical Male, Doubleshot, Sociosexual Orientation
2 May 2017
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Fidelity: remaining true to ones relationship, in delity or the thought of in delity leads to jealousy. Many cultures put a lot of emphasis on a woman"s delity, and the man"s honour is tied to the woman"s delity. Cultures with less emphasis on delity have less jealousy. Swingers are an example of a phenomena that has very little jealousy among partners. Related cultures see a positive correlation between the importance a culture places on delity and the act of jealousy, as the value increases on. In delity has been found in all studied cultures, and often has a cause usually the result of an unhappy relationship in western cultures. 14th c philosophers: viewed jealousy as a positive emotion, which showed devotion and passionate love. 17th c philosophers: believed that 2 forced guided human actions reason (superior and controlled), passion (inferior, uncontrolled, related to jealousy) Ancient chinese: viewed jealousy as unmanly and a female sentiment.
