• DOI:10.1007/s10508-014-0409-9
Corpus ID: 22587415

Upset Over Sexual versus Emotional Infidelity Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Adults

@article{Frederick2016UpsetOS,
  title={Upset Over Sexual versus Emotional Infidelity Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Adults},
  author={D. Frederick and Melissa R. Fales},
  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},
  year={2016},
  volume={45},
  pages={175-191}
}

• D. Frederick, Melissa R. Fales
• Published 2016
• Psychology, Medicine
• Archives of Sexual Behavior

One hypothesis derived from evolutionary perspectives is that men are more upset than women by sexual infidelity and women are more upset than men by emotional infidelity. The proposed explanation is that men, in contrast to women, face the risk of unwittingly investing in genetically unrelated offspring. Most studies, however, have relied on small college or community samples of heterosexual participants. We examined upset over sexual versus emotional jealousy among 63,894 gay, lesbian… Expand

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