PSY 3102 Lecture 11: Jealousy and Fidelity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3102
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

If delity is important in relationships, in delity ought to lead to negative reactions, jealousy being one of them. Certain cultures put a lot of emphasis on a women"s delity, and the man"s honour is tied to her actions. Swingers are an example of a phenomenon that has very little jealousy among partners: differentiate between physical and emotional delity, and put more emphasis on emotional. Delity: enjoy sexual jealousy because it is interpreted as arousing. These cultures reveal a correlation between delity and jealousy; increased value placed in. Is often a cause, but also a result of unhappy relationships (previti and amato, 2004) 14th century philosophers viewed jealousy as a positive emotion, which showed devotion and passionate love. 17th century philosophers believed that two forces guide human actions: reason: superior, controlled, passion: inferior, uncontrolled (jealousy falls under this category) Ancient chinese (18th century) viewed jealoussy as unmanly and a female sentiment.