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Reviewed By: Varnada Karriem-Norwood,
SOURCES: 2010 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, University of Delaware, Newark. Steven Most, PhD, Cognitive Psychologist, University of Delaware, Newark.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
Your latest eye exam might reveal you have twenty-twenty vision.
But it turns out that what we become aware of only has partly, only partly comes from what is received by the eyes.
In fact, when it comes to our closest relationships, emotion can color what we see.
Love supposedly blinds, but in particular we found that jealousy, the experience of jealousy, was really something that blinded our participants.
Researchers at the University of Delaware asked couples to complete two tasks. Women had to identify pictures pointed the wrong way, and men rated landscape images on attractiveness. Not a problem until the guys got new instructions.
This time rather than rating the attractiveness of landscapes, you're going to rate the attractiveness of single women, some of whom are here on campus.
That game-changer triggered an emotional effect in the women.
And it turned out that the more uncomfortable, the more anxious, the more jealous she reported herself being, the more she was distracted by the particularly emotional images that happened to just incidentally be in the stream, to such a degree that she couldn't see the target she was looking for.
Because the 'emotional blindness' in women was so pronounced when men rated other's beauty, they ran a second study to confirm it.
We went in there having that hypothesis, but I guess I was surprised at how strong the effect was.
And while poets say love blinds us, this shows jealousy certainly can, too. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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