文档介绍：L ove wasn’t the only thing in the air on Valentine’s Day 2003. A Texas jury had just 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 idental homicides where motive is known—along with rage arising from a quarrel and murder during mission 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 years now, a small but persistent group of in- vestigators has attempted to uncover the na- ture and origin of this painful and dangerous counterpart of romantic love. Most of us know jealousy from experience as a deeply negative emotion that arise