Cerebral Waves

 Aag tan-man mein lage, Radha kaise na jale? This aag is an evolved psychological trait, say evolutionary psychologists. Does that mean jealousy in the context of romantic relationships is just evolutionary conditioning, often playing in unconscious ways you can't do much about?  Does that also mean over evolutionary history, a greater and greater proportion of the human population started feeling jealous of their partner(s) intimately interacting with others from the opposite sex (let's keep homosexuality aside for now)? Under what selection pressures do you think the trait of jealousy would result in greater reproductive success?                                                         (Scene: Lagaan, Bollywood - 2001) It might have gone something like this:  (good chances that I'll make scientifically incorrect statements here)...

(Pasting my response to a question I got on a WhatsApp group: Why do many IIScian men chase women and once the woman is into them they are like " meh! I am not into u anymore"? It's so disheartening and emotionally so heavy on us women.) Although nothing justifies this behaviour, I think there's some explanation from evol-psycho as to why it's mostly men doing this, not women. And it's important to understand this -- just like it's important to understand criminal psychology.   Disclaimer: I am not a mate psychology expert. I just happen to be deeply interested in sex differences in humans. The interest developed with a desire to understand the typical behaviors of my sisters and women in general.  ( Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast: Diana Fleischman & Louise Perry on 'Uncanny Vulvas' (sex robots) and Sex Differences in our evolved psychology ) Just to remind u, our evolved psychology, at times, works in unconscious ways. U don’t ge...