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A study from Delaware University published by the American Psychological Association has shown that women in relationships are literally blinded by jealously if they think their partner is looking at another woman.

To test this, the researchers asked young couples to sit separately with the men rating the attractiveness of landscape pictures on computer screen and the women looking to spot pictures of landscapes within a rapid stream of images.

However, when the pictures the men were being asked to rate for attractiveness began to have pictures of women to rate inserted periodically, some of the women began missing the targets they were supposed to be spotting.

In an interview after the study, the women who admitted that they were jealous were also the ones who had failed to spot the targets.
They suffered an 'emotion-induced blindness', said psychology professors Steven Most and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, from Delaware University.

The next step for this research is to see how men fare when the tables are turned…