Crazy Jealous
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008“Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time” - Arab proverb.
Jealousy like the main reason of family’s conflicts was mentioned by 28% of men and 19% of British women. But a lot of people believe that
Aristotle used to say:” Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.”
Ariella Friedman, in the Journal of Social Psychology, wrote: “In several studies, women became more jealous than men when they thought that their marital relationship had been damaged. Men, on the other hand, were more likely to become jealous in response to a threat to their self-esteem.”
Jealousy is an adaptive evolutionary mechanism. Scientists have found that British males are more jealous about sexual infidelity, in contrast to
One more interesting fact, some studies found great differences between British men and women, but found equally huge disparities between London escorts and Swedish, and between British and Eastern European men, and even greater differences among Asian and Japanese males. This study showed that about 25% of Chinese men found sexual infidelity most distressing, while 75% emotional infidelity most distressing, in contrast to 34% of British men, who mentioned that emotional infidelity more harmful than marital infidelity.
Another research discovered that people’s height and attractiveness play the huge role in jealousy’s differences. They found that average-height women tend to be less jealous than small one and terrible, frightful, dreadful, fearful, awful females are less jealous than attractive, luxurious, hot, high class and elite
A world famous modern scientist – Harris, whose work about jealousy has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, wrote: “The research has found that the evolutionary theory of jealousy just does not hold up to rigorous academic scrutiny”. “A thorough analysis of the different lines of research which espoused this point of view raises serious doubts about how much of a sex difference actually exists. It is entirely possible that natural selection shaped the two sexes to be more similar rather than different.”
Harris studied the four main aspects: self-report data, physiological materials, sociological information and cases of pathological jealousy. “In many of these studies, there is great variability within the male’s responses,” explained Harris. “In many cases, only a minority of men report that a mate’s sexual infidelity would be worse than emotional infidelity.”
“It is important to keep in mind that the phenomena of sexual jealousy can be analyzed at many levels from the societal to the individual and that different factors may play key roles at each level. However, cultural mores and laws may impact reactions in important ways,” noted Harris.
Jealousy is really terrible thing. Never mind who are more jealous man or woman it always affects relationship: jealousy reverberates on sexual and social partners’ lives, it the main case of conflicts and sorrows. Robert A. Heinlein (American science-fiction writer, 1907-1988) wrote: “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

