A home improvement app, Porch conducted a survey and found that 49.6% of male respondents and 67.3% of women respondents snooped through their partner’s smartphones. According to evolutionary psychology, both men and women experience jealousy in different ways and, thus, feel threatened due to different reasons. Men, in general, are more jealous of sexual infidelity and women are more jealous of emotional infidelity as it affects the long-term commitment of their partner.
