Is jealousy different for men and women? Research is growing to find out if there is a difference between men and women when they perceive jealousy. Specifically emotional reactions to a romantic partner's infidelity, with men showing higher levels of jealousy because of a partner's sexual infidelity and women showing higher levels because of a partner's emotional infidelity a partner (Bailey, Gaulin, Agyei and Gladue, 1994; Buss, Larsen, Weston and Semmekoth). , 1992; Buunk, Angleitner, Oubaid and Buss, 1996). However, there is an ongoing debate over how best to interpret these gender differences, with theorists largely falling into one of two groups: 1) those who view jealousy as an evolved sexual adaptive solution to paternal uncertainty and 2) those who view jealousy as a problem. common emotion of social cognition. The central difference between the groups is that those in the first group focus on distal explanations of jealousy, while those in the second group focus on proximal explanations of jealousy. Furthermore, the groups differ in their understanding of how the mind works, with those in the first group adopting a modular view (Toobey and Cosmides, 1992) and those in the second group adopting a general view of the processor. The theorists of the first group share the same vision. conjecture that jealousy is an entity that evolved to explain the specific problem of mate preservation (Daly, Wilson, & Weghorst, 1982). They claim that different responses to jealousy evolved as a result of ancestral men and women facing unique reproductive challenges. Due to an invisible fertilization process, men could never be certain that they were genetically related to the children born to their partners. This uncertainty of paternity was the greatest reproductive challenge the ancestors faced...... middle of article ......003). An examination of sex differences in sexual jealousy, including self-report data, psychophysiological responses, interpersonal violence, and morbid jealousy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 7(2), 102-128. doi:NO_DOI. Taken from EBSCOhost. Harris, CR and Christenfeld, N. (1996). KIND, JEALOUSY AND REASON. Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell), 7(6), 364-366. Taken from EBSCOhost. Pietrzak, RH, Laird, JD, Stevens, DA, & Thompson, NS (2002). Sex differences in human jealousy: A coordinated study of forced choice, continuous rating scale, and physiological responses on the same subjects. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 83-94. Salovey, P. and Rodin, J. (1984). Some antecedents and consequences of jealousy of social comparisons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 780-792. Taken from EBSCOhost.