SSS 2010-01-28
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(一)月
Studies from around the world have reported that men are more jealous of sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity. And women are the opposite—they’re more jealous of emotional cheating than sexual cheating. And experts often lean on an evolutionary 2 cause for this: men can never be sure that they are the baby-daddy and women are most concerned with securing a genuinely loyal father to care for the children.
Well authors of a recent study in Psychological Science question the strength of the evolutionary just-so theory—realizing that there are men who find emotional cheating far worse than sexual cheating. And the study reports that personality patterns, shaped by one’s relationship history, can have an impact on jealousy 3.
Four hundred and eleven participants took a survey to measure their jealousy type, meaning which troubles them more: sexual or emotional fidelity 1. And then they completed a test which specifically measures attachment 4 style in relationships and those styles include: secure, fearful, preoccupied 5 or dismissing.
And they found that 65% of those who are autonomous 6 and tend to be dismissive about commitment reported greater stress about sexual cheating than emotional cheating. And 77% of those who are more securely attached and committed in relationships found emotional betrayal to be worse than sexual duplicity.
Even within each sex the results were striking. Dismissive women were four times more likely to report greater sexual jealousy than securely committed women. And dismissive men were 50 times more likely to report sexual jealousy than securely committed men.
So the authors warn: sex differences in jealousy are much more nuanced than an evolutionary explanation might imply.
—Christie Nicholson
- There is nothing like a dog's fidelity.没有什么能比得上狗的忠诚。
- His fidelity and industry brought him speedy promotion.他的尽职及勤奋使他很快地得到晋升。
- Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
- These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。
- Some women have a disposition to jealousy.有些女人生性爱妒忌。
- I can't support your jealousy any longer.我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。
- She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
- She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。
- He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事，没注意到有什么不对。
- The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
- This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。