Jealousy in Sexual and Emotional Infidelity: An Alternative to the Evolutionary Explanation - Statistical Data Included

Journal of Sex Research, May, 2000 by Dawn K. Nannini, Lawrence S. Meyers

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Manuscript accepted November 22, 1999

Dawn K. Nannini and Lawrence S. Meyers California State University, Sacramento

This paper is based on a psychology Masters thesis and was presented as a 15 min. paper at the joint convention of the Western Psychological Association and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association in Albuquerque, NM (April, 1998). Special thanks to Pamela Mallory-Johnson and Christina Montoya for their assistance in conducting this study.

Address correspondence to Dawn Nannini who is now at the Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523: e-mail: liberty@lamar.colostate.edu.