Emotional reactions to infidelity

Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective

Emotional responses to sexual and emotional infidelity: constants and differences across genders, samples, and methods.

In three studies (total N = 619), the authors tested an evolutionary hypothesis: Men are more bothered by sexual than emotional infidelity, whereas the reverse is true of women. More diverse samples (in age) and measures than is typical were used. In Study 1, the authors found across gender, sample, and method that sexual infidelity was associated with anger and blame, but emotional infidelity ...

Emotional and sexual infidelity offline and in cyberspace.

This study investigated how men and women perceive online and offline sexual and emotional infidelity. Undergraduates from a large university in Northern Ireland participated in the study. It was found that men, when forced to decide, were more upset by sexual infidelity and women by emotional infidelity. It was also found that men were more likely to believe that women have sex when in love an...

Emotional reactions to crime across cultures.

Information about the emotions experienced by observers when they witness crimes would have important theoretical and practical implications, but to date no study has broadly assessed such emotional reactions. This study addressed this gap in the literature. Observers in seven countries viewed seven videos portraying actual crimes and rated their emotional reactions to each using 14 emotion sca...

Emotional Reactions to Point-Light Display Animations

Emotional reactions to basic, artificial, yet carefully controllable point-light displays (PLDs) were investigated with ratings of valence, arousal, approachability, and dominance. PLDs were varied by movement location (upper and lower) and intensity (10°, 20°, and 30° angular change) for angular upward and downward movements. Half of participants (N = 28) were told that PLDs were related to fa...