lousy using a sample of Americans was conducted by Paul, Foss and Galloway (1993) who compared judgments about aggressive components of jealous reactions to the partner and to the rival. Specific comparisons included emotional (anger), cognitive (blame), and behavioral components.
In the first study 172 college students responded to questionnaires assessing jealousy reactions after exposure to two conditions to which they were randomly assigned: (1) mild (flirting) transgressions; and (2) serious (cheating) transgressions. In the second experiment, 113 subjects (aged 18 49 years) were asked to imagine a situation in which they knew their partner had been sexually unfaithful.
Analyses of collected data revealed the following major findings: a) the jealous individual's anger and blame were focused more on the partner than the rival, (b) mean anger and blame scores given the partner were well matched, (c) men were more inclined to think about aggressive action against the rival while women were
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