Relationship status and gender-related differences in response to infidelity.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The sexual imagination hypothesis suggests that responses to a partner's infidelity emerge from the sociocultural factors that affect individuals' imagining of that occurrence irrespective of biological sex, including relationship status (i.e., the experience of a serious, committed relationship). Nevertheless, evolutionary psychological perspectives predict that responses to a partner's infidelity emerge from a sex-specific evolved innate mechanism.

Methods

A lower 2D:4D digit ratio is associated with more robust responses to a partner's sexual infidelity. In this study, participants (660 males and 912 females) were requested to measure finger lengths, reactions to their partners' sexual and emotional infidelity, and relationship status.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Kato T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10244511 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature