Infidelity and the Science of Cheating by Sharon Begley
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Infidelity and the Science of Cheating by Sharon Begley
Through research psychologists and other researchers have claimed that sexual infidelity effects both men and women differently. In addition, their beliefs on sexual infidelity differ. There have been many theories about the occurrence of infidelity, and most researchers have different opinions about these theories.
Researchers from the article Infidelity and the Science of Cheating, written by Sharon Begley, have asked the following question to different ethnic groups of all ages and of both sexes: what distresses them more, emotional infidelity or sexual betrayal? The results were women find emotional infidelity more disturbing than men do, and men find sexual betrayal more disturbing than women do. These results varied slightly depending on how the question was asked, but the ratio remained almost the same.
Researchers found that men and women have different beliefs on sexual infidelity. Women believe that men think that “love implies sex more often then sex implies love (59),'; and men believe that women think that “sex implies love about as strong as love implies sex (59)';. The difference researchers explain is that there is an existence of a jealousy gender gap. In order to explain what causes the jealousy between genders scientists are now creating tests to prove “whether the mind’s ability to reason, rather than genes, can explain the jealousy gender gap (59).';
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that research psychologists and other researchers have claimed that sexual infidelity affects both men and women differently.
- Explains that men and women have different beliefs on sexual infidelity. the difference researchers explain is that there is an existence of a jealousy gender gap.
- Explains that scientists' theories differ on the science of sexual infidelity, stating that jealousy is triggered depending on our genes being passed down from neanderthal days.
- Opines that sharon begley believes that women are evolutionary programmed to become more distressed at emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity.
- Explains that this article was written to educate society on how men and women feel about infidelity by providing the reader with statistics and beliefs of both sexes.
- Analyzes how sharon begley explains, in an unbiased way, how men and women feel about the subject of infidelity and their beliefs.
- Opines that sharon begley's founded opinion is to be wary of single bullet theories advanced so brilliantly that their dazzle gets in the way of their content.
- Analyzes how sharon begley misleads readers by slightly addressing the issue of infidelity, and by ignoring the science of cheating, the more important part of the article.
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- Explains that the research was conducted at a mid-size university in the western us, and participants were 155 undergraduates’ students, 64 males and 91 females ranging from 17 to 55 years.
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