Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2018
Abstract
Jealousy is a troublesome emotional experience for those afflicted by its onset. The grip of the “green-eyed monster” has been known to cause misery and produce some drastic coping behaviors ranging from paranoid stalking to violent aggression. But rather than a product of civilized culture gone wrong or a mental disorder as some thinkers have claimed jealousy to be, the current chapter proposes from an evolutionary perspective that jealousy plays an important role in our lives by serving a critical adaptive function for humans—the vigilance over and protection of relationships that are valuable to us.
Keywords
Jealousy, Evolutionary psychology, Adaptations, Function, Sex differences, Mating
Discipline
Psychology | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Functions of Emotion
Editor
H. C. Lench
First Page
121
Last Page
140
ISBN
9783319776194
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-77619-4_7
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
New York
Citation
YONG, Jose C., & LI, Norman P.. (2018). The adaptive functions of jealousy. In Functions of Emotion (pp. 121-140). New York: Springer.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2798
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77619-4_7