title: Elevated romantic love and jealousy if relationship status is declared on Facebook.
abstract: Declared relationship status on Facebook can serve as a public commitment and as an extra layer of a couple's security. However, the question arises: do those who report the relationship status feel stronger romantic love and jealousy toward their partners than those who do not share such information publicly? To test this assumption, profile information and questionnaire data of romantic love and jealousy were gathered from 292, 230 females) respondents that were in a relationship. Our results suggest that announcing the relationship status is associated with elevated romantic love and jealousy. Therefore, being "Facebook official" can be interpreted as a tie-sign indicating that the couple is "out of the market," and can promote their unity as a "digital wedding ring."
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary ; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Orosz
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Ádám
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Szekeres
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zoltán G
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Farkas
authors.affiliation: Département de Psychologie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne Reims, France.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roland-Lévy
keywords: facebook; jealousy; relationship status; romantic love; social network