‘Love conquers all.’ –Virgil
The majority of studies testing this theory have examined men and women’s responses to hypothetical infidelity scenarios in which participants must choose which type of infidelity (sexual or emotional) is more distressing or upsetting.
Although studies using this forced-choice methodology generally find that a higher proportion of men than women choose the sexual infidelity as more distressing, reliance on this methodology has led to a number of serious challenges, including: (a) that sex differences in jealousy are not replicable with continuous measures of jealousy, and (b) that sex differences in jealousy do not emerge when people report their reactions to actual infidelity experiences.
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