Posts tagged human mating
The reality of jealousy – Who is more vigilant ? Men or Women ?
Mar 5th
I think that from a scientific point of view, apart from the question of whether men or women cheat more often, the question concerning jealousy is a more interesting and enlightening one. Why? Because it reaches at the basic heart and core workings of the strategies men and women use in their mating dance.
More interestingly, even though one might conclude that the question of whether men are more jealous than women is in direct relation with the question of whether women cheat more than men, we will approach the issue separately. Let’s analyze it from the cost effectiveness point of view.
That is what Aaron T. Goetz from The Department of Psychology at California State University and Kayla Causey from The Department of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University did in a study that tried to answer the question of whether there are any sex biased differences in perceptions of infidelity. Do really men often assume the worst?
What were the risks of not being able to detect your partner’s infidelity in the early days of our ancestors? Either if you were a man or a woman you risked losing your reputation, contacting sexually transmitted diseases or terminating the relationship. But more than that, if you were a man you were never sure if you were rearing the offspring that shared half of your genes! A woman always knew that of course, because she was the one giving birth to the child. So the risk of cuckoldry to which a man was exposed to, that is the risk which he was subjected at in investing his time, resources and even his life to rear a child that was not even his, plus the time, effort and resources spent attracting his partner, represented an evolutionary driving force that has not left its effects expected.







