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Abstract

Romantic jealousy is a commonly experienced complex of feelings, which in its pathological expression leads to personal misery, problematic relations and problems for the partner of the person experiencing it. Research in romantic jealousy has began since the ‘40s, when Alfred Kinsey noted that men tend to be more preoccupied withthe sexual aspect of a partner’s sexual infidelity, whereas women tend to worry most about lost attention, sentimental investment and love from their partner. More recently researchers have attempted to explainthe sexual difference in jealousy as an innate module, through the evolution theory and have attracted the attention of the scientific community, as well as much criticism. Supporters of sociocognitive theories attempt to place jealousy as an innate module in their theory. Cognitive behavioural therapies have started including jealousy as such a module in their case conceptualization of pathological jealousy.