Evidence from a homosexual sample for a sex‐specific rival‐oriented mechanism: Jealousy as a function of a rival's physical attractiveness and dominance

@article{Buunk2001EvidenceFA,
  title={Evidence from a homosexual sample for a sex‐specific rival‐oriented mechanism: Jealousy as a function of a rival's physical attractiveness and dominance},
  author={Bram P. Buunk and Pieternel Dijkstra},
  journal={Personal Relationships},
  year={2001},
  volume={8},
  pages={391-406},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143140171}
}
Among heterosexual women in particular. a rival's physical attractiveness evokes jealousy, whereas among heterosexual men in particular. a rival's dominance evokes feelings of jealousy. The present study conducted with gay men and lesbian women examined whether these sex-differentiated responses reflect an evolved sex-specific rival-oriented mechanism according to which males and females pay attention to different rival characteristics or an evolved general partner-oriented mechanism, according… 
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