Jealousy

Jealousy is a familiar experience in human relationships. It has been observed in infants five months old and older. Some claim that jealousy is seen in every culture; however, others claim jealousy is a culture-specific phenomenon.


Jealousy as an emotion or the impact of jealousy has been a theme of many novels, songs, poems, films and other artistic works. It has also been a topic of interest for scientists, artists, and theologians.
Psychologists have proposed several models of the processes underlying jealousy and have identified factors that result in jealousy.
Sociologists have demonstrated that cultural beliefs and values play an important role in determining what triggers jealousy and what constitutes socially acceptable expressions of jealousy.
Biologists have identified factors that may unconsciously influence the expression of jealousy. Artists have explored the theme of jealousy in photographs, paintings, movies, songs, plays, poems, and books. Theologians have offered religious views of jealousy based on the scriptures of their respective faiths.

Jealousy is state of fear or suspicion about losing something or someone important. As observed by Rouchefoucauld in his Maxims, the experience of jealousy can last much longer than that of a basic emotion like anger, without losing its original intensity, and may outlast the attachment that initiated it: "Jealousy is always born with love; it does not always die with it."

The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζήλος (zēlos), sometimes "jealousy", but more often in a good sense "emulation, ardour, zeal" (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").

The color green is often associated with jealousy and envy, which is where the expressions "green with envy", and "green-eyed monster" come from. ( see below pic )

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I'm full of this jealousy thingy. blahh