Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds

Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds

Reference:
Bryner Jeanna (2010, April 15). Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds. Live Science Managing Editor，Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36567772/ns/health-behavior/

Summary:
New research suggests that jealousy can actually lead people to miss the right thing from their eyes. A new study, which did by Steven Most of the Department of Psychology at the University of Delaware, can prove this phenomenon. In this experiment, the researchers selected 25 couples to take the test; each of people has a screen next to them. All of female were asked to pick some target pictures from a series of quickly play pictures, and all the target pictures are landscapes. There are some very unpleasant pictures played during the playing process, which can interfere women’s feeling. At the same time, each male also has a screen with playing landscape; the researchers asked them to give scores to landscape and the researchers make them to see some photos of single women at the middle of text process and asked them to give "attraction" points to these women. Then the researchers asked women participants feeling of anxiety when their partners assessing other women’s charm. The results showed that female who was jealousy with the heightened jealousy can single out the number of target pictures were less than the female with a little jealousy.

Reaction:
Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety. It often consists of a combination of emotions such as anger, sadness and disgust. Jealousy just likes a devil, it can lead people to do something terrible or even destroy something beautiful, while, it is a commonly psychological phenomenon, and everybody has jealousy emotion in their hearts, especially girl, because girls like more beautiful things than boys, they always pay more attention to their appearance, beautiful cloth, decorations and so on and they want to own all of pretty things that the like, if they don’t have but their friends have it, jealousy may be caused. So jealousy always joined with the comparison, and it can break the relationship easily. I think people should keep a balanceable mind-set, because where there is no comparison, no jealousy.

Vocabulary:
Gruesome: extremely unpleasant and shocking
Heterosexual: opposite sex
Graphic: producing very clear and detailed mental images
Preoccupied: the thing you think about most
Distraction: entertainment
Manipulation: to control something by using the hands
Prioritize: to arrange in order of importance so that you can deal with the most important things before the others
Tough: not easily broken, weakened, or defeated; strong
Stimulus: something that causes growth, activity, or reaction
Prone: likely to do, get, or suffer from something