Sex Differences in Jealousy in Evolutionary and Cultural Perspective: Tests From the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States

@article{Buunk1996SexDI,
  title={Sex Differences in Jealousy in Evolutionary and Cultural Perspective: Tests From the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States},
  author={Bram P. Buunk and Alois Angleitner and Viktor Oubaid and David M. Buss},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={1996},
  volume={7},
  pages={359 - 363}
}
As predicted by models derived from evolutionary psychology, men within the United States have been shown to exhibit greater psychological and physiological distress to sexual than to emotional infidelity of their partner, and women have been shown to exhibit more distress to emotional than to sexual infidelity Because cross-cultural tests are critical for evolutionary hypotheses, we examined these sex differences in three parallel studies conducted in the Netherlands (N = 207), Germany (N… Expand
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