Men Proven Better At Detecting Infidelity In Spouse
October 30th, 2008 | by admin |
Men may have an easier time detecting infidelity better than women according to the results of a new study.
On the flip side, according to study author Paul Andrews of Virginia Commonwealth University, women maybe more apt when it comes to hiding the fact that they are cheating on their men.
For their study the researchers surveyed 203 young couples, asking them to fill out questionaires pertaining to their lives as a couple, asking whether they had ever had an affair, or if they had been of the belief that their partners had cheated.
Just under 29% of men, and 19% of women admitted to have cheated on their spouse.
“Eighty percent of women’s inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 percent of the time,” Andrews said.
The survey also found that men were more quick to accuse their women of cheating, even if the women had remained true.
The study is published in the journal Human Nature.
