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Reactions To Infidelity: Individual, Gender, And Situational Predictors Of Relationship Outcome And Forgiveness, Marcia B. Kimeldorf
Reactions To Infidelity: Individual, Gender, And Situational Predictors Of Relationship Outcome And Forgiveness, Marcia B. Kimeldorf
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Infidelity in romantic relationships can be devastating, and can cause many complex emotional reactions. The Jealousy as a Specific Innate Module (JSIM) hypothesis posits that due to differing reproductive pressures over evolutionary history, men and women have evolved different mechanisms to respond to infidelity. JSIM proposes that men, due to fears of cuckoldry, will respond with intense jealousy to a partner's sexual infidelity. It proposes that women, who are certain of their maternity but may suffer severe consequences if their mate falls in love with another and diverts his resources elsewhere, will respond with intense jealousy to emotional infidelity. These …
From Self-Reports Of Personality To Perceptions Of The Transgressor?S: Perceived Agreeableness As A Predictor Of Post-Conflict Anxiety, Benjamin A. Tabak
From Self-Reports Of Personality To Perceptions Of The Transgressor?S: Perceived Agreeableness As A Predictor Of Post-Conflict Anxiety, Benjamin A. Tabak
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Following interpersonal transgressions, victims? neuroticism and agreeableness have been previously associated with post-conflict anxiety and forgiveness. However, the perceptions that victims have about their transgressors? personalities have received little attention. The current investigation examined relationships between victims? neuroticism and agreeableness, their perceptions of their transgressors? agreeableness, and postconflict anxiety and affiliative motivation measured via plasma cortisol and oxytocin as well as self-reports of post-conflict anxiety and forgiveness in premenopausal women. Victims who perceived their transgressors as more agreeable reported lower post-conflict anxiety, experienced less plasma cortisol reactivity following a simulated speech to the transgressor, and more self-reported forgiveness. Exploratory analyses …
Social Dominance And Conciliatory Gestures As Determinants Of Reconciliation And Forgiveness, Adam Cohen
Social Dominance And Conciliatory Gestures As Determinants Of Reconciliation And Forgiveness, Adam Cohen
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In this project I evaluated the effect of social dominance on reconciliation and forgiveness. Based on studies of nonhuman primates, it was hypothesized that humans would be more likely to accept and reciprocate conciliatory gestures when made by more socially dominant people. It was also hypothesized that the moderating effect of relative dominance on a victim?s decision to forgive would not be as strong as relative dominance?s effect on a victim?s decision to reconcile. This hypothesis was based on the expectation that reconciliation is most essential for gaining access to transgressor-controlled resources. However, conciliatory gestures by less dominant transgressors more …