Behavioral jealousy is actions that occur between an individual who is experiencing envious thoughts and how they internalize and react to stimuli. Pfeiffer and Wong (1989) “conceptualize jealous behaviors as the investigative/protective measures a person takes when relational rivals (real or imagined) are perceived. Investigative actions include questioning, checking the partner and searching his belongings” (p.183). Research suggests that behavioral jealousy is used to maintain relationships. Relationship maintenance refers to positive or negative behaviors that occur between two individuals in order to maintain a healthy communication balance. Dainton and Gross (2008) specifically discuss the repercussions that negative behaviors such as inducing jealousy can have on relationship maintenance. For example, using negative maintenance behaviors such as jealousy to react to a relationship is negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. This research is related to the idea of ​​social support and how individuals respond to their partners. Researchers agree that jealousy in relationships can have a negative impact, but it can also increase romantic feelings and satisfaction depending on how jealousy is initially communicated (Dainton & Gross, 2008; Yoshimura, 2004). “An essential idea underlying this study is that the ways in which jealous individuals communicate their jealousy influence how the target responds communicatively. The results showed that subjects of jealous expressions responded more strongly in the style of the initial expression” (Yoshimura, 2004, p. 95). How jealousy is initially expressed, based on attitude and mood, can influence a partner's response and shape and guide the relationship...... middle of paper ...... and a correlation paralleled by offline jealousy behaviors. Groothof, Dijkstra, and Barelds (2009) suggest that "with respect to offline acts of infidelity, men are more troubled than women by their partner's sexual infidelity on the Internet, while women, more than men, are more troubled by spouse's emotional infidelity" on the Internet” (p.1126). Research also suggests that in addition to socio-cultural and evolutionary jealousy based on gender differentiation; further research should focus on the individual's social cognitive perspective related to the emotion of jealousy. Harris (2002) suggests that “individuals clearly vary in their susceptibility to feelings of jealousy…the degree of jealousy will be determined by the assessments people make of the severity of a threat” (p. 11). That said, more research into the triggers of sexual jealousy should be done.