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strangelanguage: Study Shows How Jealousy Can “Blind” Women It’s hard to see things clearly when you fall victim to the green-eyed monster. And sometimes jealousy can make it hard to see at all. Researchers found that a woman can fail to notice things in front of her when distracted by the possibility that her husband or boyfriend is attracted to someone else. Psychologists suggest this reveals something profound about social relationships and perception. During the experiment, however, the men were asked to rate images of other women for attractiveness. Their partners were later asked how uneasy that made them feel. Those women who admitted to being jealous had failed to see the targets they were supposed to be looking for. They suffered an ‘emotion-induced blindness’, said psychology professors Steven Most and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, from Delaware University. They concluded: ‘The language of social relationships is filled with visual metaphor but the influence of social emotions - known to affect moods, behaviour and physical health - appears to permeate so deeply as to affect processes involved in visual awareness. Read More

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Study Shows How Jealousy Can “Blind” Women

It’s hard to see things clearly when you fall victim to the green-eyed monster. And sometimes jealousy can make it hard to see at all.

Researchers found that a woman can fail to notice things in front of her when distracted by the possibility that her husband or boyfriend is attracted to someone else. Psychologists suggest this reveals something profound about social relationships and perception.

During the experiment, however, the men were asked to rate images of other women for attractiveness.

Their partners were later asked how uneasy that made them feel. Those women who admitted to being jealous had failed to see the targets they were supposed to be looking for.

They suffered an ‘emotion-induced blindness’, said psychology professors Steven Most and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, from Delaware University.

They concluded: ‘The language of social relationships is filled with visual metaphor but the influence of social emotions - known to affect moods, behaviour and physical health - appears to permeate so deeply as to affect processes involved in visual awareness.

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