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Gender affects perceptions of infidelity
November 27th, 2008
A new study in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy explored how men and women perceive online and offline sexual and emotional infidelity. Results show that men felt sexual infidelity was more upsetting and women felt emotional infidelity was more upsetting. Monica T. Whitty and Laura-Lee Quigley of Queen's University Belfast surveyed 112 undergraduate students and asked them questions about sexual and emotional infidelity both offline and on the internet. When given the choice, men were more upset by sexual infidelity and women were more upset by emotional infidelity. Additionally, "men were more likely to believe that...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-11-27)
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