TY - JOUR
T1 - Proneness to romantic jealousy and responses to jealousy in others
AU - Greenberg, Jeff
AU - Pyszczynski, Tom
PY - 1985/9
Y1 - 1985/9
N2 - An experiment was conducted to assess the relationship between dispositional proneness to experience romantic jealousy and perceptions of jealousy in others On the basis of cognitive and motivational constructs, it was hypothesized that (1) Persons high in proneness to jealousy perceive healthy jealous couples as more in love than healthy nonjealous couples, (2) persons high in proneness to jealousy perceive unhealthy jealous couples as less in love than unhealthy nonjealous couples, and (3) persons low in proneness to jealousy perceive healthy jealous couples as less in love than healthy nonjealous couples The latter two hypotheses were supported Results were discussed with regard to the roles of beliefs about jealousy and threats to the perceiver in individuals reactions to jealousy in others
AB - An experiment was conducted to assess the relationship between dispositional proneness to experience romantic jealousy and perceptions of jealousy in others On the basis of cognitive and motivational constructs, it was hypothesized that (1) Persons high in proneness to jealousy perceive healthy jealous couples as more in love than healthy nonjealous couples, (2) persons high in proneness to jealousy perceive unhealthy jealous couples as less in love than unhealthy nonjealous couples, and (3) persons low in proneness to jealousy perceive healthy jealous couples as less in love than healthy nonjealous couples The latter two hypotheses were supported Results were discussed with regard to the roles of beliefs about jealousy and threats to the perceiver in individuals reactions to jealousy in others
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00377.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00377.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84985294858
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 53
SP - 468
EP - 479
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 3
ER -