PSYC 362 Chapter Notes -Convergent Validity, Cuckold, Natural Selection
16 Apr 2013
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A review of sex differences in sexual jealousy, including. Interpersonal violence, and morbid jealousy by harris (2003) The article discusses/reviews jealousy as a specific innate model (jsim). Hypothesis: natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Men should be primarily jealous over a mate"s sexual infidelity, and. Women should be more jealous over a mate"s emotional infidelity. Findings are consistent with the idea that men have a greater tendency to focus on or discuss sexual matters in general. No conclusive evidence or data that men are more jealous regarding sexual infidelity. Used log-odds ratio (lor); no sex difference would show a lor of zero. With gays and lesbians, there is no gender difference in jealousy over emotional vs sexual infidelity. Age: sex difference found in college samples, but the gender difference decreases with age. What other studies found: self-report data inconsistent with jsim.
