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Women's Romantic Jealousy Predicts Risky Appearance Enhancement Effort [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2023
Human appearance enhancement effort has recently been considered from an evolutionary perspective as an adaptive and sexually dimorphic strategy for effective female intrasexual and intersexual competition.
Steven Arnocky   +4 more
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Social Media’s Role in Romantic Partners’ Retroactive Jealousy: Social Comparison, Uncertainty, and Information Seeking

open access: yesSocial Media and Society, 2018
Social media often have a dark side in romantic relationships. Affordances such as persistence, association, and visibility can promote romantic jealousy and the salience of relationship threats, including ex-partners.
Jesse Fox
exaly   +2 more sources

Localizing adult playfulness in dimensions of romantic attachment and jealousy in singles [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Adult playfulness is a personality trait gaining increasing attention, particularly in romantic contexts. We localize four facets of playfulness (Other-directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical) within dimensions of attachment styles and ...
Kay Brauer, René T. Proyer
doaj   +2 more sources

What Is the Link of Closeness and Jealousy in Romantic Relationships? [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
From an evolutionary perspective, love and attachment foster closeness, while jealousy ensures exclusivity in romantic relationships. This study examined the links between jealousy and affective aspects of love, hypothesizing positive associations ...
Ana María Fernández   +5 more
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Gender differences in romantic jealousy and attachment styles

open access: yesJournal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 2017
Objective: We examined the gender differences and attachment styles with regard to the phenomenology of jealousy among married individuals. Method: The study included 86 married couples who presented to the Marriage Counselling Centre at the Bakırköy ...
Güliz Şenormancı   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Between-Sex Differences in Romantic Jealousy: Substance or Spin? A Qualitative Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2012
An influential evolutionary account of romantic jealousy proposes that natural selection shaped a specific sexually-dimorphic psychological mechanism in response to relationship threat.
Nicola J. Fussell, Brian T. Stollery
doaj   +2 more sources

The Silent Rejection: The Indirect Path From Partner Phubbing to Psychological Well-Being Through Self-Esteem and Romantic Loneliness. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Community Psychol
ABSTRACT Romantic relationships play an important role in individuals' psychological well‐being. However, with the widespread use of digital technologies, these relationships may face new challenges. Partner phubbing refers to an individual's preoccupation with their phone during face‐to‐face interactions with a romantic partner and may weaken ...
Doğru MC, Türk Kurtça T.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Facial femininity of potential rivals predicts jealousy in both heterosexual and lesbian women [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Individuals displaying cues of higher mate value (e.g., attractive characteristics) are thought to represent a greater threat to pair bonds and, consequently, elicit greater jealousy.
Junzhi Dong   +3 more
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From Physique to Feelings: Deciphering the Body–Jealousy Connection in Women's Responses to Feminine Vocal Cues [PDF]

open access: yesPsyCh Journal
Jealousy typically emerges when individuals sense that their romantic relationships may be threatened by others who display characteristics indicative of high mate quality. Previous research has found that in contexts of intrasexual competition, feminine
Cairang Guanque   +5 more
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