In 2021, around ** percent of respondents in the United States admitted to have cheated on any partner, current or previous. This is an increase compared to last year, when ** percent admitted to the same.

According to a report released by Gleeden, an online dating platform for extra-marital affairs, ** percent of female Gleeden users in India who have cheated on their spouse did so due to being bored by a monotonous married life. The report also found that ** percent of unfaithful women did not regret cheating.

In 2021, around ** percent of respondents in the United States admitted to have cheated on their current partner. This is roughly the same as in the previous year, when ** percent admitted to the same.

Descriptive statistics for the age and infidelity of the Caucasian male target faces, and the social judgments by Caucasian and Asian women, Study 1.

A survey conducted in Japan in 2020 revealed that more men than women have cheated on their partners in the past. While almost ** percent of male respondents confessed to infidelity, the same was true for under ** percent of surveyed women.

This dataset delves into the complex topic of marital affairs, aiming to uncover the underlying social, demographic and psychological factors that may contribute to extramarital relationships. Originally derived from a well-known behavioral study, the dataset captures the characteristics of 6,365 married individuals, documenting their personal attributes and self-reported involvement in affairs.

📊 Features Overview: - rate_marriage – Self-rated satisfaction with the marriage (scale: 1–5) - age – Age of the respondent - yrs_married – Number of years married - children – Number of children - religious – Level of religious commitment (scale: 1–5) - educ – Education level (years of education) - occupation – Occupation of the respondent (categorical encoded) - occupation_husb – Occupation of the respondent's husband (for female respondents; also categorical encoded) - affairs – Time spent in extramarital affairs (in months)

🎯 Target Variable: - affairs is a continuous variable, but for classification purposes, a binary label can be created (e.g., Had Affair: Yes/No where 0 = no affair, >0 = had affair).

📌 Why This Dataset? Understanding human behavior in relationships is both socially and psychologically significant. This dataset can be used for: * Behavioral and psychological analysis * Predictive modeling (classification/regression) * Exploratory data analysis (EDA) * Feature engineering and model interpretability exercises * Educational purposes in social sciences and data science

🛠️ Use Case Ideas: * Predicting the likelihood of having an affair based on personal and relationship characteristics * Analyzing how marriage satisfaction correlates with infidelity * Building interpretable models to identify key predictors * Understanding the role of education, age, and religion in marital stability

This statistic shows the results of a survey in the United States in 2012 among singles on infidelity in relationships. 7.7 percent of respondents said they have been unfaithful themselves to a partner before.

Abstract This study aimed to adapt the Intentions Toward Infidelity Scale (IIS) to the Brazilian context, knowing its psychometric parameters. Two studies were carried out with people who were in a romantic relationship. Study 1 included 161 participants (mean age = 24.9), who responded to the IIS and demographic questions. Results indicated the one-factor solution for this scale (α = 0.85), whose items showed reasonable discriminative power (theta ranging from -0.5 to 3.0). Study 2 included 236 participants (mean age = 25.5), who answered the same instruments. Results supported the one-factor structure (e.g., CFI = .95 and TLI =.93), which showed invariant across sex (ΔCFI and ΔRMSEA < 0.01). In conclusion, the findings supported the adequacy of the IIS items, but also indicated evidence of its factorial validity and internal consistency, favoring its use in studies looking to investigate the correlates of infidelity.

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected various aspects of personal life, including romantic relationships. While existing research has explored the pandemic’s impact on relationship quality and behavior, little attention has been given to the influence of the pandemic on infidelity. This study aims to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced both the increased desire for and the actual engagement in infidelity among individuals in relationships, with a particular emphasis on parents. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of romantically partnered U.S. adults (N = 1,070), to examine self-reported increased desire for and engagement in infidelity. Using linear and binary logistic regressions, we investigated how parental status (parent vs. non-parent) affected this desire or engagement, with gender (men vs. women) included as a moderating variable and controlling for the occurrence of one or more stressful relationship events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicated that parents (vs. non-parents) reported increased desire for, and engagement in, infidelity; men also reported increased desire and engagement than did women, but gender did not moderate the links between parental status and infidelity. These results suggest that parents and men may be especially vulnerable to high stress like that brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic; these individuals and their current romantic relationships may benefit from targeted social support.

Within socially monogamous breeding systems, levels of extra-pair paternity can vary not only between species, populations and individuals, but also across time. Uncovering how different extrinsic conditions (ecological, demographic and social) influence this behavior will help shed light on the factors driving its evolution. Here, we simultaneously address multiple socio-ecological conditions potentially influencing female infidelity in a natural population of the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler, Acrocephalus sechellensis. Our contained study population has been monitored for over 25 years, enabling us to capture variation in socio-ecological conditions between individuals and across time and to accurately assign parentage. We test hypotheses predicting the influence of territory quality, breeding density and synchrony, group size and composition (number and sex of subordinates), and inbreeding avoidance on female infidelity. We find that a larger group size promotes the likelihood of extra-pair paternity in offspring from both dominant and subordinate females, but this paternity is almost always gained by dominant males from outside the group (not by subordinate males within the group). Higher relatedness between a mother and the dominant male in her group also results in more extra-pair paternity — but only for subordinate females — and this does not prevent inbreeding occurring in this population. Our findings highlight the role of social conditions favoring infidelity and contribute towards understanding the evolution of this enigmatic behavior.

This statistic shows the percentage of women who have already cheated on their partners in their lifetime in France from 1970 to 2022. It appears that the share of French women who had been unfaithful increased since 1970, reaching ** percent in 2022 compared to ** percent in 1970.

Microbial cells rely on cooperative behaviours that can breakdown as a result of exploitation by cheats. Recent work on cheating in microbes, however, has produced examples of populations benefiting from the presence of cheats and/or cooperative behaviours being maintained despite the presence of cheats. These observations have been presented as evidence for selection favouring cheating at the population level. This apparent contradiction arises when cheating is defined simply by the reduced expression of a cooperative trait and not in terms of the social costs and benefits of the trait under investigation. Here, we use two social traits, quorum sensing and iron-scavenging siderophore production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to illustrate the importance of defining cheating by the social costs and benefits. We show that whether a strain is a cheat depends on the costs and benefits associated with the social and abiotic environment and not the absolute expression of a cooperative trait.

Dataset within this study was collected around Gauteng province, South Africa. The sample size of of 16 (10 females and 6 males) participants amongst the youth (aged 20-30), and 5 (5 females) key informants (psychologists, counsellors, and social workers of any age). 2 focus groups were also conducted, however these only included youth members and had 5-8 members in each group. All participants had to have experienced infidelity in their past/present relationships, whilst key informants had to have encountered clients who experienced infidelity in their past/present relationships. This study was a qualitative study using one-on-one interviews and 2 focus groups. The data revealed that there were various constructs (such as gender, race, culture and upbringing) influencing the ways in which infidelity is reacted to and perceived by individuals. Within African countries specifically, men are encouraged to have multiple partners and engage in infidelity, as multiple partners is linked to men's masculinity. Women on the other hand are encouraged to have only 1 partner, and refrain from promiscuity as women need to stay loyal to their unfaithful partners. Men cannot easily express their emotions when encountering a traumatic experience such as infidelity. Men who express their emotions are seen as 'frail and weak'. Women on the other hand, are allowed to openly express themselves when faced with trauma such as infidelity. The gendered barriers and divisions were identified and discussed within this study, and its role in influencing how infidelity is reacted to and perceived by individuals.

Number of divorces, by reason of marital breakdown (separation for at least one year, adultery, physical cruelty, mental cruelty) and by place of occurrence, 2004 to 2005.

Extra-pair copulation (EPC) is widespread in socially monogamous species, but its evolutionary benefits remain controversial. Indirect genetic benefit hypotheses postulate that females engage in EPC to produce higher quality extra-pair offspring (EPO) than within-pair offspring (WPO). In contrast, the sexual conflict hypothesis posits that EPC is beneficial to males but not to females. Thus, under the sexual conflict hypothesis, EPO are predicted to be no fitter than WPO. We tested these two hypotheses with a 12 years dataset with complete life-history and pedigree information from an isolated island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus). We compared fitness components of EPO and two types of WPO: (1) WPO from genetically polyandrous “unfaithful” mothers, and (2) WPO from genetically monogamous mothers. We found that all three groups of offspring had similar probabilities of hatching and nestling survival. Unexpectedly, EPO had the lowest probability of recruiting into the br...

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This study explores the influence of population density on the coexistence of cooperative and cheating strains of Kluyveromyces lactis. Utilizing the Snowflake (cooperative) and Co-Uni (cheating) strains developed by Driscoll & Travisano. By varying population density, we examined how interaction frequencies affect their interactions and community composition. Our findings revealed that reduced interaction frequencies decrease the benefit associated with cheating, but maintain the benefit associated with cooperating. Over ~60 generations we observed that cell-cell interactions play a crucial role in maintaining coexistence and are contingent on population density. These insights contribute to ecological theories on species coexistence and have practical applications in managing biofilms and designing stable microbial consortia.

Academic dishonesty has been and continues to be a major problem in America’s schools and universities. Such dishonesty is especially important in high schools, where grades earned directly impact the academic careers of students for many years to come. The rising pressure to get the best grades in school, get into the best college, and land the best paying job is a cycle that has made academic dishonesty increase exponentially. Thus, finding the widespread roots of cheating is more important now than ever. In this study, we focus on how societal norms and interactions with peers influence lying about scores in order to obtain a benefit in a high school population. We show that (1) the societal norms that go hand in hand with test-taking in school, as administered by a teacher, significantly dampen small-scale dishonesty, perhaps suggesting that context-dependent rewards offset cheating; (2) providing reminders of societal norms via pre-reported average scores leads to more truthful self-reporting of honesty; (3) the matrix search task was shown to not depend on class difficulty, confirming its effectiveness as an appropriate method for this study; (4) males seem to cheat more than females; and (5) teenagers are more dishonest earlier in the day. We suggest that students understand that cheating is wrong, an idea backed up by the literature, and that an environment which clearly does not condone dishonesty helps dampen widespread cheating in certain instances. This dampening effect seems to be dependent on the reward that students thought they would get for exaggerating their performance.

This statistic shows the percentage of men who have already cheated on their partners in their lifetime in France from 1970 to 2022. It reveals that almost **** of French men had already cheated on their partners in 2022.

Bacteria perform cooperative behaviours that are exploitable by non-cooperative cheats, and cheats frequently arise and coexist with cooperators in laboratory microcosms. However, evidence of competitive dynamics between cooperators and cheats in nature remains limited. Using the production of pyoverdine, an iron-scavenging molecule, and natural soil populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens, we found that (1) non-producers are present in the population; (2) they co-occur (<1cm3) with pyoverdine producers; (3) they retain functional pyoverdine receptors and (4) they can utilize the pyoverdine of on average 52% of producers. This suggests non-producers can potentially act as social cheats in soil: utilizing the pyoverdine of others while producing little or none themselves. However, we found considerable variation in the extent to which non-producers can exploit cooperators, as some cooperators appear to produce exclusive forms of pyoverdine or kill non-producers with toxins. We examined the consequences of this variation using theoretical modeling. Variance in exploitability leads to some cheats gaining increased fitness benefits and others decreased benefits. However, the absolute gain in fitness from high exploitation is lower than the drop in fitness from low exploitation, decreasing the mean fitness of cheats and subsequently lowering the proportion of cheats maintained in the population Our results suggest that although cooperator-cheat dynamics can occur in soil, a range of mechanisms can prevent non-producers from exploiting cooperators.