Study Says Women Can Spot Cheaters At A Glance

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Can Women Really 'See' Cheating? © Mirco Vacca/Dreamstime.comOr, at least, the 34 women in the study showed "small-moderate" correlations with guessing right when they were asked. (And men can't tell, apparently.) It seems like you can't throw a dart at a wall of research without hitting a "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" claim. Recently, we've seen some good studies along those lines (and some not so good studies). Now here's another one, out of Australia: women, researchers say, can tell if a person they've never seen before has a history of infidelity. The researchers determined the sexual histories of 189 white adults. Then they showed photos of those adults to 34 men and 34 women, who had to decide which subjects had a background of cheating. The female participants, researchers said, could tell with "modest" (not high but not insignificant) accuracy which men had a history of...

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