Jealousy mediates the relationship between attractiveness comparison and females' indirect aggression
@article{Arnocky2012JealousyMT,
title={Jealousy mediates the relationship between attractiveness comparison and females' indirect aggression},
author={Steven A Arnocky and Shafik A. Sunderani and Jessie L. Miller and Tracy Vaillancourt},
journal={Personal Relationships},
year={2012},
volume={19},
pages={290-303},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53575584}
}Indirect aggression is considered an evolutionarily adaptive mechanism that can improve female mating success. It has been hypothesized that indirect aggression toward romantic partners and peers is used more frequently by females who make appearance-based comparisons and that these relationships are mediated by jealousy. Females (N = 528) currently in romantic relationships were surveyed. Results confirmed females who made more frequent appearance comparisons aggressed more often toward…
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