Scientists believe that it is a person's power, rather than gender, that plays the greatest role in infidelity.
Scientists have scraped the old notion that men are more likely to stray than women
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They now believe that it is a person's power, rather than gender, that plays the greatest role in infidelity.
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A team of researchers conducted an anonymous Internet survey of 1,561 adults and found that there is a higher risk of unfaithfulness in people of positions of power, no matter the sex.
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Lammers and his team also measured other variants such as confidence, distance and the perception of risk as it relates to infidelity.
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"People often assume that powerful men may be more likely to cheat because they have risk-taking personalities or because of distance, such as frequent business trips that many powerful people go on," he said.
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"We found little correlation between either of the two," he added.
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"As more women are in greater positions of power and are considered equal to men, then familiar assumptions about their behaviour will change," he added.
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The study revealed two key discoveries to why powerful people cheat.
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First, there is a strong association between power and confidence, and the amount of confidence a person has is the strongest link between power and unfaithfulness.
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Second, the researchers found that among powerful people, gender made no difference in past digressions or the participants' desires to cheat.
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And, the study said, we as a society do not hear about more women cheating because there simply aren't as many women in positions of power as their male counterparts.
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