2004/01/01 by Christine R. Harris · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Marriage and Sexual Relationships #Jealousy #Rage (emotion) #Psychology #Psychoanalysis #Passion #Drama #Freudian slip #Embarrassment #Jury #Variety (cybernetics) #Criminology #Social psychology #Literature #Art #Law
paper · doi:10.1511/2004.45.919
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effects of emotion on cognitive processes, social influences on emotional reactivity and specif ic emotions?particularly jeal ousy, embarrassment and humor. Address: Department of Psychology-0109, UCSD, La folia, CA 92093-0109. Internet: [email protected] Love wasn't the only thing in the air on Valentine's Day 2003. A Texas jury had jus found C. Harris guilty of killing her husband in a sudden passion. After encountering him at a hotel with a mistress, she had driven the car over his body again and again. As oth ers were exchanging tokens of love, the Mer cedes murderer was sentenced to spend 20 years in jail. Clara Harris was hardly the first woman to stand accused of murdering in a jealous rage. In various studies, jealousy is often ranked among the top three motives for nonaccidental homicides where motive is known?along with rage arising from a quarrel and murder during the commission of a crime. Across the ages the confounding power of sexual jeal ousy has inspired poetry, novels, drama, art and opera. It has also captured the attention of psychologists, who have used a variety of the oretical approaches in their pursuit of scien tific understanding. Early work focused on Freudian interpreta tions, the influence of which can still be seen in the psychiatric literature. As in other domains of psychology, however, recent research has followed a rather different direction. For some