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COSTA, Nazaré et al. The jealousy is related to love: Contributions from a behavioral analytic perspective. Perspectivas [online]. 2014, vol.5, n.1, pp. 40-48. ISSN 2177-3548.

Jealousy and love appear related since an early age in the history of humanity and such relationship has still been observed nowadays. However, there are virtually no empirical data to support the relationship between them. The article by Puente and Cohen, two North Americans, is one of the few that describes empirical studies about this relationship. As the present study consisted of a systematic replication from one of the studies by these authors, they were kept the same goals: to check if people relate jealousy and love and to identify if there is a difference in the responses considering the participant gender. The sample was consisted of 200 participants, who were presented to a text describing situations in which a wife interacted with a stranger and the husbands' reactions: one who had jealousy about the situation and the other who did not present. After, they should respond to a likert scale in which they evaluated the reaction of each husband. In general, it was confirmed the hypothesis that as wife's behavior got more provocative, the participants perceived the reaction of jealous husband as more loving and favorable compared to not jealous one. Data were analyzed from concepts such as culture, control by rules and relational framework.

Palabras clave : jealousy; love; culture; analysis of behavior.

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