Jealousy
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| The word "jealousy" is frequently used to describe what is more properly [[envy]], fixation on what someone else has. | The word "jealousy" is frequently used to describe what is more properly [[envy]], fixation on what someone else has. | ||
| + | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[Envy]] | ||
| + | * [[Crime of passion]] | ||
| + | * [[Delusional jealousy|Jealousy delusion]] | ||
| + | * [[Jealousy sociology]] | ||
| + | * [[Relational transgressions]] | ||
| + | * [[Jealousy in art]] | ||
| + | * [[Jealousy in religion]] | ||
| + | * [[Compersion]] — jealousy's opposite — [[empathy|empathizing]] with a lover's joy with another. | ||
| + | * [[Emotion]] | ||
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Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. This rival may have no knowledge of threatening the relationship.
The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), and from the Greek word for "ardour, zeal" (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast"). Jealousy is a familiar experience in human relationships. It has been reported in every culture and in many forms where researchers have looked. It has been observed in infants as young as 5-6 months old and in adults over 65 years old.
It has been an enduring topic of interest for scientists, artists, and theologians. Psychologists have proposed several models of the processes underlying jealousy and have identified individual differences that influence the expression of jealousy. Sociologists have demonstrated that cultural beliefs and values play an important role in determining what triggers jealousy and what constitutes socially acceptable expressions of jealousy. Biologists have identified factors that may unconsciously influence the expression of jealousy. Artists have explored the theme of jealousy in photographs, paintings, movies, songs, plays, poems, and books. Theologians have offered religious views of jealousy based on the scriptures of their respective faiths. Despite its familiarity, however, people define jealousy in different ways. Some even mislabel it as being protective of something or someone, when the fact is, it's really simply possessive jealousy itself; and many feel they don't possess effective strategies for coping with this form of jealousy.
The word "jealousy" is frequently used to describe what is more properly envy, fixation on what someone else has.
See also
- Envy
- Crime of passion
- Jealousy delusion
- Jealousy sociology
- Relational transgressions
- Jealousy in art
- Jealousy in religion
- Compersion — jealousy's opposite — empathizing with a lover's joy with another.
- Emotion
