Emotions Jealousy changes your perception

Emotions: Jealousy changes perceptions: Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Delaware University (USA) have used psychological experiments to test couples for their perceptions and attentions in situations of jealousy, and found that jealousy seems to affect one's perception.

Researchers at the Department of Psychology, Delaware University, USA, have used psychological experiments to test couples for their perceptions and attentions in situations of jealousy, and found that jealousy seems to affect one's perception.Steven B. Most, lecturer and researcher for psychology at UD, and his team recruited 25 heterosexual couples from the local campus campus for the study. The condition was that the relationship of the couple lasted more than 11 months.

The experimental procedure that the scientists in the magazine „emotion“ (Vol 10 (2), Apr. 2010, 250-256, doi: 10.1037 / a0019007) of the American Psychological Association (APA) of Washington D.C., the world's largest psychologists' association, entitled „Blind jealousy? Romantic insecurity increases emotion-induced failures of visual perception.“ The results were published in such a way that the female partners were shown twelve consecutive pictures of buildings or landscapes in only a few seconds on a computer monitor. With a button they had to click when a picture came that had a 90 degree turn.

The male partners were in the same room with them, but on another computer screen and did the same. After some time, one of the researchers came into the room and told the male partner nicely that the other partner also had to hear that he was now seeing female single women from the University of Delaware on his monitor, their attractiveness he should judge. Subsequently, the assessments of the female partners, who were sitting in the same room, turned out to be much worse for the 90 degree-rotated images. Most and his colleagues then asked the women once again how strongly they had affected the communication and the knowledge of the single-woman images. They now want to further investigate whether this also applies to the men and the experimental set-up again with men and women in reverse roles.

So a partnership with their emotional components seems to have an impact on the perception, in this case visual ability, of us humans. It would be interesting to examine how conversely it could be possible to use this ability to influence therapeutically with social and emotional components. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 14.03.2010)

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