A percepção do ciúme no processo de escolha de parceiros : uma perspectiva evolucionista

Abstract

This assignment intends to discover if the jealous perception influences in the choosing process of partners. Jealous is present since the beginning of the history of humanity, composing the various forms of interpersonal relations, be it in the family, in school, in social life, at work and specially in the affective romantic relations. Evolutionist psychologists propose that this phenomenon happens because of distinct selective pressures suffered by men and women during the natural selection that helped our ancestors and probably keeps helping us until today to face many real reproductive threats. The aim was to test hypothesis connected to the evolutionist theory, besides comparing our results to the literature review. Our sample was composed of 136 male individuals and 136 feminine individuals, who answered a questionnaire referring to personal data, open questions and a scale of measure of jealous as criterion of wishing a partner. Our data allowed us to confirm the hypothesis that confirms that the information concerning the indicative behavior of jealous of the proposed partner influences in the perception of the wishing degree concerning to him/her. However, the hypothesis about the people that had already betrayed and the ones who hadn t concerning to the potential jealous of the partner, and it made the potential partner to be noticed as less desirable, but was not corroborated. The data suggest that biological and cultural factors act influencing themselves mutually concerning the behavior of choice of partners in humans.