An Experimental Test of Jealousy's Evolved Function: Imagined Partner Infidelity Induces Jealousy, Which Predicts Positive Attitude Towards Mate Retention.

IF 1.1 4区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Steven Arnocky, Kayla Kubinec, Megan MacKinnon, Dwight Mazmanian
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Abstract

Jealousy may have evolved to motivate adaptive compensatory behavior in response to threats to a valued relationship. This suggests that jealousy follows a temporal sequence: A perceived relational threat induces state feelings of jealousy which in turn motivates compensatory behavior, such as mate retention effort. Yet to date, tests of this mediation model have been limited to cross-sectional data. This study is the first to experimentally test this theoretical model. Men and women (N = 222) who were currently in committed romantic relationships were primed with an imagined partner infidelity (versus control) scenario. Participants then completed measures of state jealousy and intended mate retention behavior. Results found that those primed with the infidelity threat scenario experienced an increase in state jealousy, which in turn predicted more intended benefit-provisioning and cost-inflicting mate retention. Findings suggest that jealousy mediated the relationship between infidelity threat and intended mate retention behavior, supporting the evolutionary account of state jealousy.

对嫉妒进化功能的实验测试:假想伴侣不忠会诱发妒忌,而妒忌会预示保留配偶的积极态度。
嫉妒的进化可能是为了激发适应性补偿行为,以应对有价值关系受到的威胁。这表明嫉妒是有时间顺序的:感知到的关系威胁会引起状态上的嫉妒情绪,进而激发补偿行为,如努力保留配偶。然而,迄今为止,对这一中介模型的测试仅限于横截面数据。本研究首次对这一理论模型进行了实验验证。研究人员向目前处于承诺的恋爱关系中的男性和女性(N = 222)提供了一个想象中伴侣不忠(与对照组相比)的情景。然后,参与者完成了状态嫉妒和意向配偶保留行为的测量。结果发现,那些受到不忠威胁情景引诱的人的状态嫉妒会增加,这反过来又预示着他们会更多地打算提供利益和付出代价来挽留伴侣。研究结果表明,嫉妒在不忠威胁与意向性配偶保留行为之间起到了中介作用,支持了状态嫉妒的进化论。
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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
2.20
自引率
6.70%
发文量
22
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to foster communication between experimental and theoretical work on the one hand and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings across the whole range of the biological and human sciences on the other.
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