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Ana Maria Fernandez1, Pablo Vera-Villarroel, Juan Carlos Sierra
1Escuela de Psicología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida Ecuador 3650, tercer piso, Santiago, Chile. anfernan@usach.cl
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The authors studied gender differences in response to hypothetical infidelity in Spanish students. Using a forced-choice methodology, the authors asked a sample of 266 participants to indicate which kind of infidelity would be more distressing: emotional or sexual. Men were significantly more distressed by sexual infidelity than were women, and women were significantly more distressed by emotional infidelity than were men. Results supported the hypothesis that particular infidelity types, which resemble adaptive problems that human beings faced in the past, contribute to the psychology of jealousy. The results are consistent with previous cross-cultural research.
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