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Title: | The disengagement of attentive resources from task-irrelevant cues to sexual and emotional infidelity |
Authors: | Schützwohl, A |
Keywords: | Jealousy;Evolved psychological mechanism;Sex differences;Cues to infidelity;Disengagement of attentive resources;Context sensitivity |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Personality and Individual Differences, 44(3), 633 - 644, 2008 |
Abstract: | The present study tests two predictions derived from the evolutionary view of jealousy. (1) For men the disengagement of attentive resources from task-irrelevant cues to sexual infidelity is more difficult than from neutral or emotional infidelity cues. Conversely, for women the disengagement of attentive resources from task-irrelevant cues to emotional infidelity is more difficult than from neutral or sexual infidelity cues. (2) These difficulties are especially pronounced in participants currently involved in a committed romantic relationship. In each trial either an affectively neutral, an emotional infidelity or sexual infidelity distractor was simultaneously presented with a target sentence. The last trial was followed by a recall test for the targets and distractors. The results confirmed both predictions. Implications and limitations of the present study are discussed and suggestions for future research are provided. |
Description: | This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Personality and Individual Differences. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2008 Elsevier B.V. |
URI: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886907003443 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8799 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.022 |
ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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