Research on romantic jealousy has traditionally focused sex differences. We investigated why individuals vary in jealousy, even within the sexes, using a genetically informed design of ~7700 Finnish twins and their siblings. First, we estimated genetic, shared environmental nonshared influences Second, examined relations between several variables that have been hypothesized to relate because th...

Murder followed by suicide (M-S) is a rare phenomenon that has been studied in several countries. Previous studies show that offenders of M-S are predominately men who live in an intimate relationship. Amorous jealousy is often the trigger to commit M-S. Shooting is the most common way to kill a partner and/or children. In general, women are likely to become victims. The aim of this study was t...

We asked 26 subjects to recall and describe social situations in which either a close or a distant other performed better or worse than the self at an activity that was either high or low in relevance to the self. Subjects then rated the extent to which they experienced each of 18 different emotions in each situation. They also rated each situation on a series of dimensions that Smith and Ellsw...

Among complex social emotions, there is a very important emotion called “romantic jealousy.” “Romantic jealousy is defined as a complex of thoughts, feelings, and actions which follow threats to self-esteem and/or threats to the existence or quality of the relationship, when those threats are generated by the perception of a real or potential attraction between one’s partner and a (perhaps imag...

Purpose The association between social media and jealousy is an aspect of the dark side that has garnered significant attention in past decade. However, understanding this fragmented needs to be assimilated provide scholars with overview current boundaries knowledge area. This systematic literature review (SLR) aims fulfill need. Design/methodology/approach authors undertake SLR assimilate rega...

This research examined the concept of power in Japan, France, Germany, and the United States, as well as beliefs about the emotions persons in power tend to elicit in others and about powerful people's regulation (specifically, inhibition) of certain emotions. Definitions of power were assessed by examining the importance of two main components: control over self versus other and freedom of act...