Social emotions can affect what we see by Zivka Deleva

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise, the hell of heaven and the most bitter of the emotions, because associated with the sweetest, said once ago, British intellectual Alfred Richard Orage. This smart man didn’t invent a hot water by saying this, only made it clearer, or better sounded. The emotion that is sister to the most precious one, the love, is the inevitable companion to almost each human being. But, what happens when it grows so much as a big bubble and stops you from seeing your partner in its’ real existing flash and body, and more, makes you lose that person every day more and more. Jealousy’s been an inspiration to poets, artists, even scientis! ts to see through it and reach to its cognizance. But, “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy” , the word of Mr.Orage’s compatriot Lawrence George Durrell, maybe say it best, that that is a feeling that is not explicable. Few days ago, two psychology professors from the University of Delaware made an experiment in which they wanted to show that sexual jealousy can affect women’s ability to see clearly. They tested heterosexual couples, who seated close to each other, with computer screens in front of them. Men watched attractive pictures of landscapes and of nice looking women, while their wives also watched landscapes and architecture sites, but unpleasant photos, as well. Women that showed jealousy didn’t even notice the ugly pictures, but were angry with their partners. The experiment wanted to show that the emotions involved in social relationships affect mental and physical health, and even what we see. The experiment hasn’t! yet been made in the opposite direction, so it is not yet app! ropriate to state that women are more jealous than men.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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