Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021
Abstract
Jealousy is defined as one of the most common automatic responses to endangering a relationship by a third party, and in evolutionary psychology it has the function of maximizing selfreproduction fitness, ensuring paternity security in men and maintaining partner's resources in women. These include romantic jealousy, in men assuring certainty of paternity, and in women assuring the maintenance of partner's resources.
Thus, according to this logic, woman's sexual infidelity should be more threatening for men and man's emotional infidelity (emotional involvement with other women than a primary partner) should be more threatening for women.