0191-8869/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.012 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 (0)50 363 9707. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.D. Cobey). Women who use hormonal contraceptives have been shown to report higher levels of jealousy than women who are regularly cycling. Here, we extend these findings by examining if self reported levels of jealousy vary with t...

Jealousy is a complex emotion that most people have experienced at some time in life; pathological jealousy refers primarily to an irrational state. Othello syndrome is a psychotic disorder characterized by delusion of infidelity or jealousy; it often occurs in the context of medical, psychiatric or neurological disorders. At least 30% of cases in the literature show a neurological basis for th...

PURPOSE In this study, the effects of personal, situational, and relational variables (such as age, gender, gender role orientation, duration of relationship, relational satisfaction, and physical attractiveness of the partner) on jealousy are investigated. METHODS A sample of 454 individuals currently involved in dating or marital relationships (48 % married, 52 % unmarried) completed the Ro...

The ratio of index finger length to ring finger length (2D:4D) is an index of prenatal androgen exposure. The larger the exposure to androgens, the smaller this ratio will be. Androgens “masculinise” people and may influence individual differences in a predictable way. In a study with 109 participants, 46 men and 63 women, the relationship between 2D:4D and jealousy was assessed. In a jealousy ...

Across two studies, 716 and 308 undergraduate students from the United States and mainland China, respectively, were administered a series of measures on jealousy, emotional responses to partner infidelity, family background, and personality. Across both studies for the U.S. and Chinese samples, a higher proportion of males than females reported more distress to a partner's Imagined sexual infi...

The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Therefore, men should be primarily jealous over a mate's sexual infidelity and women over a mate's emotional infidelity. Five lines of evidence have been offered as support: self-report resp...

This article describes the organic contribution to morbid jealousy. Although the true prevalence of morbid jealousy is unknown, organic factors contribute significantly to its development. We present an assortment of five case histories to highlight the importance of organic causation in this phenomenon. The first two cases portray organic delusional disorder arising as an aftermath of cerebral...

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the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of identity made by a brand for customrers on their anti-brand activities through brand love and brand jealousy. the present study is an applied research and is descriptive/ survey research in terms of methodology. the statistical population consists of all benetton customers who buy at benetton store in shriaz city, of which 384 custo...