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The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζῆλος (zēlos), sometimes "jealousy", but more often in a positive sense "emulation, ardour, zeal" [14] [15] (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").
Pathological jealousy, also known as morbid jealousy, Othello syndrome, or delusional jealousy, is a psychological disorder in which a person is preoccupied with the thought that their spouse or romantic partner is being unfaithful without having any real or legitimate proof, [1] along with socially unacceptable or abnormal behaviour related to these thoughts. [1]
Intimacy or immediacy behavior is that behavior that provides closeness or distance within a dyad relationship. Closeness projects a positive feeling in a relationship, and distance projects a negative feeling within a relationship. Intimacy or immediacy behavior can be negatively valenced or positively valenced. [2]
The tendency of people to remember past experiences in a positive light, while overlooking negative experiences associated with that event. Fading affect bias: A bias in which the emotion associated with unpleasant memories fades more quickly than the emotion associated with positive events. [158] Generation effect (Self-generation effect)
Counterproductive workplace behavior is strongly correlated with negative disposition, and can also lead to moral disengagement. [16] Positive and Negative Affect. Positive - Positive Affect is an internal feeling that occurs when a goal has been completed, a threat has been avoided or the individual is pleased with there present state. [17]
Justice-based schadenfreude comes from seeing that behavior seen as immoral or "bad" is punished. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a "bad" person being harmed or receiving retribution. Schadenfreude is experienced here because it makes people feel that fairness has been restored for a previously un-punished wrong, and is a type of ...
Negative emotionality is the opposite of positive emotionality. People are unable to control their positive mood and emotions. People are unable to control their positive mood and emotions. Everyone experiences negative emotionality in different levels, there are different factors that effect each individual in a different way.
Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that there is a gender difference in sexual jealousy, driven by men and women's different reproductive biology. [1] The theory proposes that a man perceives a threat to his relationship's future because he could be fooled into raising children that are not his own.