Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective
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Sex differences in attitudes toward partner infidelity.
Sex differences in reactions to partner infidelity have often been studied by comparing emotional reactions to scenarios of sexual versus emotional infidelity. Men, relative to women, tend to react with more distress to partner sexual infidelity than to emotional infidelity. Evolutionary theorists interpret this difference as evidence of sexually dimorphic selection pressures. In contrast, focu...
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