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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Are You Just Friends? Emotional Infidelity across Sexuality and Gender

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Social

  • Jarryd Willis
    University of California San Diego
  • Samantha Yim
    University of California San Diego
  • Haili Song
    University of California San Diego
  • Nicole Tanzer
    University of California San Diego
  • Juanshu Wu
    University of California San Diego

Abstract

Regardless of lover’s sexuality, heterosexuals perceive greatest emotional infidelity threat from their lover’s friend of the same sex as them. For those dating bisexuals, a dual-rival pattern emerged suggesting that they perceive both a potential reproductive rival and pair-bond rival threat as a function of their partner’s sexuality.

Sexuality/Sexual Behavior