Journal article
Male sexual jealousy
Abstract
Sexual jealousy functions to defend paternity confidence and is therefore expected to be a ubiquitous aspect of male psychology. Several lines of evidence confirm this expectation.Cross-cultural and historical reviews of adultery law reveal remarkable conceptual consistency: unauthorized sexual contact with a married woman is a crime and the victim is the husband.We find male sexual jealousy to be the leading substantive issue in social …
Authors
Daly M; Wilson M; Weghorst SJ
Journal
Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 11–27
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1982
DOI
10.1016/0162-3095(82)90027-9
ISSN
1090-5138