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·November 25, 2024·5 min read

Power in Relationships Increases Risk of Infidelity

Individuals who perceive themselves as more powerful in their romantic relationships are more likely to show interest in alternative partners. This heightened sense of power leads to greater confidence, feelings of desirability, and belief in having more relationship options, which can weaken commitment.

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·January 27, 2023·5 min read

Reducing the Temptation to Cheat in Relationships

Perspective-taking and empathy not only reduce the temptation to cheat on a partner, but they also help protect against other relationship-destroying behaviors.

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·August 19, 2022·5 min read

Does Entitlement Make You More Likely to Cheat?

A new study contradicts previous findings that stated a sense of entitlement induced cheating behaviors.

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·September 13, 2021·3 min read

To Cheat or Not to Cheat?

Study reveals cognitive control can drive cheaters to be honest, and honest people to cheat.

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·June 30, 2021·5 min read

‘Cheating’s Ok for Me, but Not for Thee’ – Inside the Messy Psychology of Sexual Double Standards

Both men and women play a role in perpetuating attitudes toward sex that are hypocritical and logically inconsistent, researchers say.

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·July 29, 2020·4 min read

How Women and Men Forgive Infidelity

Males and females view physical and emotional cheating differently. Women consider emotional affairs to be more serious, and men believe physical infidelity to be more serious generally. Researchers report if one partner feels their relationship is threatened by cheating, it is harder for them to forgive infidelity, regardless of gender.

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·August 1, 2019·5 min read

Cheater, cheater: Cheating may be an innate trait

People tend to cheat for personal gain as a result of an innate propensity to cheat rather than due to external factors. Researchers say scarcity had no significant impact on cheating behaviors when the beneficiaries are the subjects themselves.

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·July 28, 2019·4 min read

Dishonest acts hurt one’s ability to read others’ emotions

Study ties morality and empathy into a single construct.

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·May 29, 2019·4 min read

Tempted to cheat on a written exam? Artificial intelligence is 90% certain to nab you

Using a Siamese neural network, a new deep learning system dubbed Ghostwriter is able to distinguish the writing styles between different texts. The algorithm compares a student's current written work against past examples of their prose, providing a percentage score for similar writing styles. The new system could be used to determine if a student has plagiarized their work, or if it is an original piece.

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·October 18, 2018·4 min read

High Stakes Decision Making Causes More Cheating and Less Charity

According to researchers, when faced with high stakes decision making tasks, people are more likely to lose sight of personal morality, leading to more cheating and less charitable efforts.

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·September 26, 2018·6 min read

Psychologists Define the ‘Dark Core of Personality’

Researchers have identified a common denominator for 'dark' personality traits they have dubbed the D-factor. D-factor, researchers report, can be defined as the general tendency to maximize personal goals and interests over those of another, often to the extent of taking pleasure in hurting others.

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·September 8, 2018·5 min read

Toddlers Prefer Winners, But Avoid Those Who Win by Force

By the age of 18 months, toddlers prefer individuals others yield to, researchers say. The study suggests this preference may be rooted deep in human nature and may have evolved because being close to those in power provides people with better access to resources, territory and mates.