Naive Theories of Emotional Experience: Jealousy

Abstract

(from the chapter) the study . . . presented is . . . about a so-called 'complex' emotion, namely jealousy / address the following [topics] about people's naive theories / emotional experience: its components and their salience and nature / adequacy of emotional responses / factors that influence naive theories / in order to ascertain people's theories about the emotional experience of jealousy, a large group of (North) Italian men and women . . . , both young (mainly university students) and mature adults (roughly 40 yrs-old, with a university instruction level), were administered a questionnaire that described, in a vignette-story, 1 of 2 highly typical jealousy-eliciting events (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)