Jealousy is a troublesome emotional experience for those afflicted by its onset. The grip of the "green-eyed monster" has been known to cause misery and produce some drastic coping behaviors ranging from paranoid stalking to violent aggression. But rather than a product of civilized culture gone wrong or a mental disorder as some thinkers have claimed jealousy to be, the current chapter proposes from an evolutionary perspective that jealousy plays an important role in our lives by serving a critical adaptive function for humans-the vigilance over and protection of relationships that are valuable to us.
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Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2018). The adaptive functions of jealousy. In The Function of Emotions: When and Why Emotions Help Us (pp. 121–140). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77619-4_7
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