ArticleEvolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior2015
Health, Anticipated Partner Infidelity, and Jealousy in Men and Women.
Article in Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Fragile Egos and Broken Hearts: Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Traits Predict Reactions to Potential Infidelity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Behavioral and neural responses to social exclusion in women: the role of facial attractiveness and friendliness.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Self-perceived Mate Value is Predicted by Biological and self-reported Indices of Health in Young Adults.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2023Article
- Illness, Social Disadvantage, and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Self-Perceived Mate Value, Facial Attractiveness, and Mate Preferences: Do Desirable Men Want It All?Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Jealousy Mediates the Link Between Women's Upward Physical Appearance Comparison and Mate Retention Behavior.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Health has been identified as an important variable involved in mate choice. Unhealthy organisms are generally less able to provide reproductively important resources to partners and offspring and are more likely to pass on communicable disease. Research on human mate preferences has shown that both men and women prefer healthy mates. Yet to date, little research has examined how health relates to one's own mating experiences. In the present study, 164 participants (87 women) who were currently in heterosexual romantic relationships completed measures of frequency and severity of health problems, anticipated partner infidelity, and intensity of jealousy felt in their current relationship. Mediation analyses showed that health problems predicted greater anticipated partner infidelity and jealousy scores and that anticipated partner infidelity mediated the links between health and jealousy for both frequency and severity of health problems, controlling for both sex and relationship duration. These findings suggest that unhealthy people perceive themselves to be at a mating disadvantage, experiencing associated differences in perceptions and emotions surrounding their romantic partners' fidelity.
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