According to the results of research by scientists from Chapman University (USA), men and women are jealous in different ways. What is it expressed in?
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The large-scale study involved 64 men and women of various ages and sexual preferences. Participants were given two scenarios, and each had to choose the one that makes him more upset. As a result, scientists wanted to get an answer to the question of how men and women react to physical and emotional betrayal.
- You have discovered that your partner is in a sexual relationship with another person, but is not in love with him.
- You found out that your partner is in love with another person, but does not enter into a sexual relationship with him.
It turned out that heterosexual men, unlike heterosexual women, are more likely to be upset by physical infidelity than emotional. And women regret more that their partner is in love.
“Heterosexual men differed in the results from other participants: they perceive sexual infidelity more negatively,” said David Frederick, Ph.D. and lead author of the study. Such a reaction is easily explained. A man can never be completely sure of his paternity (unless, of course, he does a DNA test), unlike a woman who does not have such problems. That is why the reaction to physical infidelity in men is more pronounced.
Women, in turn, are afraid of losing a man, and with it everything else: patronage, protection, livelihood … That is why women react more sharply to emotional attachment, attention that a man directs to a rival, which in some cases leads to collapse families.
Another fear of men that makes them painfully accept physical infidelity is the loss of confidence in their own masculinity and sexual capabilities. The logic of reflection is this: if a woman is looking for a relationship on the side, sharing a bed with another, then she is not satisfied with her partner sexually.
It is noteworthy that neither age nor income level had any effect on the number of changes or the reaction to them. Scientists only noted that young participants in the study reacted worse to the fact of physical infidelity **.
Half of the men surveyed admitted that they cheat on their partners. Among women, “sex on the side” was practiced by only 34% of the participants. Interestingly, heterosexual men – leaders in the number of infidelities – perceive the infidelity of their partners less painfully than women – 46% versus 65%.
* D. Frederick, M. Fales «Upset Over Sexual versus Emotional Infidelity Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Adults», Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2014.
** «Research on jealousy: Impact of sexual vs. emotional infidelity», Science Daily, January 2015.