Effect of Cheating Experience on Attitudes toward Infidelity

Autor:	Andrew S. Walters, Desiree I. Sharpe, Matt J. Goren
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Gender Studies Character (mathematics) Vignette Cheating Perception media_common.quotation_subject Cognitive dissonance Psychology Social psychology Relational transgression Developmental psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Sexuality & Culture. 17:643-658
ISSN:	1936-4822 1095-5143
Popis:	The present study investigated how cheating experience influences perception of others’ infidelity. Using vignette characters, we explored the hypothesis that a participant’s experience cheating on a partner and gender of vignette character moderate gender-differentiated perceptions of infidelity (i.e., men reporting more accepting attitudes toward infidelity than women). Participants (N = 320) were asked a series of questions evaluating both how ‘acceptable’ and ‘forgivable’ was a vignette character’s infidelity. Men and women with prior experience cheating found the cheating vignette character of their same gender significantly more acceptable and forgivable than the unfaithful character of the other gender. Participants who reported no history of infidelity found infidelity as generally unacceptable, regardless of character gender.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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