Harris Christine R
Center for Brain & Cognition, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2003;7(2):102-28. doi: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0702_102-128.
The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Therefore, men should be primarily jealous over a mate's sexual infidelity and women over a mate's emotional infidelity. Five lines of evidence have been offered as support: self-report responses, psychophysiological data, domestic violence (including spousal abuse and homicide), and morbid jealousy cases. This article reviews each line of evidence and finds only one hypothetical measure consistent with the hypothesis. This, however, is contradicted by a variety of other measures (including reported reactions to real infidelity). A meta-analysis of jealousy-inspired homicides, taking into account base rates for murder, found no evidence that jealousy disproportionately motivates men to kill. The findings are discussed from a social-cognitive theoretical perspective.
嫉妒的特定先天模块理论假设，自然选择将性嫉妒塑造为一种防止妻子不忠的机制，将情感嫉妒塑造为一种防止资源损失的机制。因此，男性主要应因伴侣的性不忠而嫉妒，女性则应因伴侣的情感不忠而嫉妒。有五条证据被提出作为支持：自我报告反应、心理生理数据、家庭暴力（包括配偶虐待和杀人）以及病态嫉妒案例。本文回顾了每条证据，发现只有一项假设性措施与该假设一致。然而，这与其他各种措施（包括对实际不忠行为的报告反应）相矛盾。一项考虑到谋杀基准率的对因嫉妒引发的杀人案的元分析，没有发现证据表明嫉妒会不成比例地促使男性杀人。本文从社会认知理论的角度对这些发现进行了讨论。
