Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Pryale Hall, 654 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, MI, 48039, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2019 Aug;48(6):1811-1828. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1286-4. Epub 2019 Jan 3.
Evolutionary psychological research has studied romantic jealousy extensively within monogamous relationships, but has largely ignored jealousy among partners who mutually consent to forming extra-pair relationships (i.e., consensual non-monogamy; CNM). We examined monogamous (n = 529) and CNM (n = 159) individuals' reactions to imagining their romantic partner(s)'s extra-pair involvement. For each romantic partner, men and women completed measures of relationship jealousy and reacted to scenarios of their partner's extra-pair emotional and sexual involvement. Scenarios prompted participants to indicate which type of involvement would be more distressing and more enjoyable. They also described whether or not participants had consented to their partner's extradyadic relationship. Monogamous men were more distressed by a partner's extradyadic sexual versus emotional involvement (and a partner's emotional involvement was more enjoyable) whether the scenario was consensual or not. Monogamous women were more distressed by a partner's emotional versus sexual involvement (and a partner's sexual involvement was more enjoyable) for consensual, but not non-consensual, scenarios. There were no gender differences among CNM participants. Monogamous individuals reported greater emotional distress toward a partner's imagined extradyadic involvement, whereas CNM individuals reported thinking about their partner's extra-pair relationships more frequently. Monogamous (vs. CNM) individuals reported greater confidence that their partner would never cheat on them (i.e., enter another relationship without their consent), and CNM participants were more confident that their primary versus secondary partner would never cheat, although this effect was stronger among CNM women. Moreover, CNM participants rated that it was more important that their primary versus secondary partner did not cheat, and reported greater distress imagining that their primary versus secondary partner had cheated. Women in CNM relationships rated it more important that their partner did not cheat sexually than emotionally. Finally, we replicated previous research showing that monogamous individuals mate guard more than CNM individuals, who mate guard their primary versus secondary partner more frequently. Future directions for developing evolutionary and romantic relationship research on CNM are discussed.
进化心理学研究在一夫一妻制关系中广泛研究了浪漫嫉妒,但在很大程度上忽略了相互同意形成婚外关系的伴侣之间的嫉妒(即,同意的非一夫一妻制;CNM)。我们研究了一夫一妻制(n=529)和 CNM(n=159)个体对想象其浪漫伴侣的婚外情的反应。对于每个浪漫伴侣,男性和女性都完成了关系嫉妒的测量,并对伴侣的婚外情情感和性参与的情景做出反应。情景促使参与者表明哪种类型的参与会更痛苦,更愉快。他们还描述了参与者是否同意伴侣的婚外情。无论情景是否同意,一夫一妻制男性对伴侣的婚外性参与比对婚外情情感参与更痛苦(而且伴侣的情感参与更愉快)。一夫一妻制女性对伴侣的情感参与比对性参与更痛苦(而且伴侣的性参与更愉快),仅适用于同意的情景,而不适用于不同意的情景。CNM 参与者之间没有性别差异。一夫一妻制个体对伴侣想象中的婚外情参与感到更大的情绪困扰,而 CNM 个体则更频繁地考虑他们伴侣的婚外情关系。一夫一妻制(与 CNM 相比)个体报告说,他们对伴侣的婚外情关系更有信心,他们的伴侣不会未经他们同意就出轨(即进入另一段关系),而 CNM 参与者则更有信心他们的主要伴侣不会出轨,尽管这种效应在 CNM 女性中更强。此外,CNM 参与者认为,他们的主要伴侣不欺骗比次要伴侣更重要,并且报告说想象他们的主要伴侣或次要伴侣欺骗更痛苦。CNM 关系中的女性认为伴侣在性方面而不是情感方面出轨更重要。最后,我们复制了之前的研究,表明一夫一妻制个体比 CNM 个体更倾向于配偶监护,而 CNM 个体更频繁地监护他们的主要伴侣而非次要伴侣。讨论了关于 CNM 的进化和浪漫关系研究的未来方向。