“Provides the most comprehensive review available of the current state of research on jealousy. It should be very valuable to researchers and clinicians, as well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.”

—Contemporary Psychology


“This excellent book confronts the therapist. How these exciting ideas can be utilized in a clinical setting...is a task that keen therapists will regard as one worth tackling. ”

—Journal of Sex & and Marital Therapy


“THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JEALOUSY AND ENVY is must reading for anyone in the close-relationships field, but will be of interest to anyone at all who has ever experienced these emotions or who has been the victim of them in someone else. The book is full of interesting insights....Anyone and everyone will stand to gain from this book not only from an academic standpoint, but from the very practical standpoint of understanding experiences they confront in their everyday close relationships.”

—Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Yale University


“This book offers an extremely distinguished set of authors who are all at the forefront of the growing work on jealousy and envy. Salovey has done a great service in pulling together into this one volume these scholars' work on an emotion that almost everyone has felt. This book lays bare the basis for the legitimate scientific study of jealousy and envy and shows how theoretical and empirical developments have culminated in some very strong and broad advances in our knowledge. The book is an outstanding sign of the advances that can be made in understanding the processes of personal relationships and of persons in relationships.”

—Steve Duck, Ph.D., Daniel & Amy Starch Research Professor, The University of Iowa