@article{ref1,
title="Jealousy and the meaning (or nonmeaning) of violence",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2003",
author="Puente, Sylvia and Cohen, Dov",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="449-460",
abstract="Previous research has indicated that jealousy is one of the major triggers of domestic violence. Three studies here examined North Americans' ambivalent feelings about jealousy and jealousy-related aggression. In Study 1, it was shown that participants believed both that jealousy can be a sign of insecurity and a sign of love. In Study 2, it was shown that this equating of jealousy with love can lead to the tacit acceptance of jealousy-related violence. In Study 3, it was shown that a relative acceptance of jealousy-related aggression extends to cases of emotional and sexual abuse by husbands against their wives. In both Studies 2 and 3, men who hit or abused their wives over a jealousy-related matter were judged to romantically love their wives as much as those who did not engage in abuse. Violence in the context of a non-jealousy-related argument was seen quite negatively, but it lost a great deal of its negativity in the jealousy case.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167202250912",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167202250912"
}