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D'après une récente étude menée par l'université de Virginie aux Etats-Unis, les hommes seraient meilleurs que les femmes lorsqu'il s'agit de "détecter" l'infidélité chez le partenaire. La cause est que les hommes soient semble-t-il plus "suspicieux" que les femmes!
Paul Andrews, le chercheur qui a mené l'étude, pense que le manque de confiance des hommes en leur partenaires est la conséquence de l'évolution, car à travers les temps, les hommes n'ont jamais été en mesure de prouver qu'un enfant est le leur. La hantise d'un homme est d'élever un enfant qu'il croit être le sien alors qu'il est l'enfant d'un autre homme.
Une "injustice" pour les femmes car les hommes (29% d'hommes infidèles) sont plus susceptibles de tromper leurs épouses que l'inverse (18,5% de femmes infidèles) !
Men better at detecting unfaithful partners
Men really do have suspicious minds and are better at detecting if their partners are unfaithful than women, a new study shows. Scientists found that men were able to spot a cheating heart in more than nine out of ten cases.
They were also more likely to catch out their partner's lies than women.
However, the study also found that men's suspicious minds made them more likely to suspect infidelity even where there was none.
"Eighty per cent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time," said Paul Andrews, from Virginia Commonwealth University in Virginia, who carried out the research.
He believes that the tendency for men to mistrust their partner is a consequence of evolution and the fact that over time men have never been able to be certain that a child is theirs.
"Men have far more at stake," he said. "When a female partner is unfaithful, a man may himself lose the opportunity to reproduce, and find himself investing his resources in raising the offspring of another man."
The study tested fidelity among 203 young couples by giving them confidential questionnaires which asked them to detail if they had ever been unfaithful, and if they had ever suspected or discovered that their partner had strayed.
The findings, highlighted by New Scientist magazine, show that 29 per cent of men admitted that they had cheated, compared to 18.5 per cent of women.
While the men were better a judging their partner's fidelity, they were also more adept at catching them out.
In total the men detected 75 per cent of the reported infidelities, while just 41 per cent of women uncovered that their partner had been unfaithful.
However, the researchers believe that faced with heightened suspicions women have evolve to become better at hiding their indiscretions than men.
Analysis of the results suggest an extra 10 per cent of the women in the study had cheated on their partners, in addition to the 18.5 per cent who admitted to it.
By contrast, the men had been honest about their cheating, the figures suggested.
David Buss, from the University of Texas, Austin, said that the study added to the evidence that men have evolved defences to detect their partner's cheating, which "leads men to err on the side of caution by overestimating a partner's infidelity".
source : Telegraph
Le Boss à sa secrétaire : "Calme-toi et sois sérieuse Mlle! Je suis suis marié, je refuse de tromper mon épouse..."
Paul Andrews, le chercheur qui a mené l'étude, pense que le manque de confiance des hommes en leur partenaires est la conséquence de l'évolution, car à travers les temps, les hommes n'ont jamais été en mesure de prouver qu'un enfant est le leur. La hantise d'un homme est d'élever un enfant qu'il croit être le sien alors qu'il est l'enfant d'un autre homme.
Une "injustice" pour les femmes car les hommes (29% d'hommes infidèles) sont plus susceptibles de tromper leurs épouses que l'inverse (18,5% de femmes infidèles) !
Men better at detecting unfaithful partners
Men really do have suspicious minds and are better at detecting if their partners are unfaithful than women, a new study shows. Scientists found that men were able to spot a cheating heart in more than nine out of ten cases.
They were also more likely to catch out their partner's lies than women.
However, the study also found that men's suspicious minds made them more likely to suspect infidelity even where there was none.
"Eighty per cent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time," said Paul Andrews, from Virginia Commonwealth University in Virginia, who carried out the research.
He believes that the tendency for men to mistrust their partner is a consequence of evolution and the fact that over time men have never been able to be certain that a child is theirs.
"Men have far more at stake," he said. "When a female partner is unfaithful, a man may himself lose the opportunity to reproduce, and find himself investing his resources in raising the offspring of another man."
The study tested fidelity among 203 young couples by giving them confidential questionnaires which asked them to detail if they had ever been unfaithful, and if they had ever suspected or discovered that their partner had strayed.
The findings, highlighted by New Scientist magazine, show that 29 per cent of men admitted that they had cheated, compared to 18.5 per cent of women.
While the men were better a judging their partner's fidelity, they were also more adept at catching them out.
In total the men detected 75 per cent of the reported infidelities, while just 41 per cent of women uncovered that their partner had been unfaithful.
However, the researchers believe that faced with heightened suspicions women have evolve to become better at hiding their indiscretions than men.
Analysis of the results suggest an extra 10 per cent of the women in the study had cheated on their partners, in addition to the 18.5 per cent who admitted to it.
By contrast, the men had been honest about their cheating, the figures suggested.
David Buss, from the University of Texas, Austin, said that the study added to the evidence that men have evolved defences to detect their partner's cheating, which "leads men to err on the side of caution by overestimating a partner's infidelity".
source : Telegraph
Le Boss à sa secrétaire : "Calme-toi et sois sérieuse Mlle! Je suis suis marié, je refuse de tromper mon épouse..."
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