Americans are more passionate toward their romantic partners than Japanese people are because Americans live in social environments in which people have greater freedom to choose and replace their partners, a team of Japanese researchers suggest.
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Original article:
Junko Yamada, Mie Kito, and Masaki Yuki, Passion, relational mobility, and proof of commitment: A comparative socio-ecological analysis of an adaptive emotion in a sexual market, Evolutionary Psychology, December 14, 2017.
DOI: 10.1177/1474704917746056
Funding information:
This study was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (JP15H03445).
Contact:
Professor Masaki Yuki
Department of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
myuki[at]let.hokudai.ac.jp