Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard t... -Helen Fisher

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Helen Fisher , Scientist
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Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your ...
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire...
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In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage....
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years....
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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy....

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When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, 'You're too good, kid,' and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me....
Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation....
Jealousy is a natural feeling, even when your happy for the person and you love them....
I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me....
Jealousy isn't something I do. I am not a jealous person....
There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change....
People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexit...
We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed....
When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy....
Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system th...