Jealousy can affect the vision of women

Do not let jealousy blind eyes , " the proverb exhort people doing things should be Huodataidu . U.S. researchers found that " jealousy " really would " be so blind , " a visual distraction.

Study published in the American Psychological Association published " mood " journal.

　　Measurement "jealous"
Steven Maust and Jean - Philippe Laurent cable is Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware . They carried out with colleagues to design an interesting test.
The researchers selected 25 pairs of men and women take the test , the average husband and wife or lovers. During the test, each pair of adjacent men and women sit in front of each person has a screen.
Female subjects were asked to play from a series of images quickly singled out " the target picture . " All the pictures are landscapes , playback will be some unhappy people feel that they interfere with the picture . At the same time , the male subjects also played on the screen landscape , the researchers asked them to landscape the "charm "points .
Tests to half , the researchers asked male subjects to see some photos of single women , and asked them to give these women are playing "charm "points.
Finally, the researchers asked the female subjects in the other female partner assessment of anxiety and when the charmAnxietySense.

　　Visual effects
The results showed that female subjects were jealous of the stronger sense of their image by the interference effect , failed to pick out the "target image " the greater the number .
The researchers believe that this phenomenon are " caused by the emotional blindness . " Study , jealousy and " blindness caused by the emotional " ties between the only female in the male subjects to rate the other when it ruled out the impact of individual differences in female subjects of research results possible, the partner's score in addition Behavior , and no other factors interfere with test results.
This study reveals the social relations and the profound relationship between individual perception . It has long been aware of the emotional and social relations would be related to the mental and physical health impact , and now find that this sentiment will affect real people see things .
British " Daily Mail " 15, quoted researchers as saying : " full of social relations in the visual language of symbols , and social relations, emotions will affect people's mood, behavior and health , but also closely related with the visual impact of the profound and . "

　　Men and women are different ?
This study is concerned that women envy the relationship between the heart and vision , but researchers do not know whether this relationship also exists in men .

Similar experiments often women as research subjects , the researchers hope that further research can reveal the impact of envy on how visual men .

Pennsylvania State University psychologist Kenneth Levy and Chris Teng Kaili in the previous study of human attitudes toward romantic relationships and jealousy in the relationship. The results show that different attitudes toward love and the different psychological , cultural, environmental mechanisms , causes and extent of the impact of jealousy are different. Jealousy is not entirely caused by the gender differences .