Dedeker: It was like the first three months of the relationship, maybe I was unclear and I did it

This is from the article. This is a takeaway that shows what I just said, that the method by which researchers collect data, it can determine the results. In the article it said, in the Journal of Family Psychology, for example, researchers from the University of Colorado in Texas A&M surveyed 4,884 married women using to face to face interviews and anonymous computer questionnaires. In the interviews, only 1% of women so that they had been unfaithful to their husbands in the past year and on the computer questionnaire more than 6% did.

Dedeker: What can see with these studies is that there have been demographic changes in terms of who is cheating and how often. For example, women are just cheating more often than they used to. Again, it’s not clear if this is actually cheating more often or just more likely to lie about it or be honest about it, perhaps, or more likely to admit it.

As our researcher pointed out that is a good argument to make because if we look socially just at the fact that there’s for a very long time, been a lot higher consequences for women who cheat then there have been for men who cheat that it’s much more likely that either a woman be less likely– again, talking in a traditional sense, that would be perhaps less likely to choose a cheat or at least choose not to admit it and take that risk.

Jase: Right, that’s the thing. Continue reading →