PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Emotional Affair, Sexual Jealousy, David Buss
8 Oct 2018
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Yes: buss and colleagues believe men and women have evolved different emotional reactions to the infidelity of their partners in response to different reproductive challenges. Men are likely to be particularly bothered by their partner"s sexual infidelity while women are likely to be bothered by emotional infidelity. No: harris and christenfeld argue that there is a serious methodological problem in the study described by buss and colleagues; they are skeptical of the evolutionary interpretation. Buss argues men are more likely to be bothered by sexual infidelity because men face concerns over paternity uncertainty. Buss also argues that women are more likely to be bothered by emotional infidelity because women seek out partners who are willing to invest resources in their offspring. Emotional infidelity signals that the partner will invest resources in another partner. Harris and christenfeld believe buss"s methods were seriously flawed due to them being based on imagination.
