Gender, socioeconomic status, age, and jealousy: Emotional responses to infidelity in a national sample

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 330-334

  Green, Melanie C ^a   Sabini, John ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Evolution; Jealousy; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; JEALOUSY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; DECEPTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JEALOUSY; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745950501     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.330     Document Type: Article

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