Is It Possible That Shorter People Get More Jealous?

If you are a jealous person you might want to blame your parents for making you so short. A new study claims that how jealous you are is determined by your height.

I will admit that my blood boils sometimes with jealousy, but I always thought it was because I was Italian, not because I'm 5 feet 6 inches tall (on a good day).

Get this, how tall you are can determine how jealous you get. While an attractive, rich and strong rival will stir up feelings of jealousy, those feelings will be much stronger for shorter men and women.

That's the word from a new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, who found that the shorter the man, the more jealous he gets since male height is associated with attractiveness, dominance and reproductive success.

It even applied to women. While they were most alarmed by a competitor's beauty and charm, a woman's feelings of jealousy were less intense if she herself was of average height.

[via: Evolution and Human Behavior]