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#553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship

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Bus on Jealousy

Jealousy serves an adaptive function or a function tributary to reproductive fitness that says hey don't lose this person that you value. If my friend takes me then i know she prefers me over her new friend and even if she spends 40 hours with a week with her new friend i'm not as threatened because i know she wants to be with me. The more jealousy the more threat or replacement threat that this other person stands to pose the poacher so if the poacher is spending a lot of time with my friend i might feel some jealousy okay maybe my friend likes them better but if my friend definitely prefers me to that person. So for friendship jealousy we sort of think it's it

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