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An online survey conducted by Wedberg (2016) only found 20% of women cultivated a backup partner, but it is possibly a younger sample (average age 23 years with few participants older than 30) compared to the one from OnePoll.com and possibly a different country (UK vs US). Further, Wedberg included all women, while OnePoll.com only partnered women. Wedberg probably mainly included students from SUNY New Paltz along with some participants from Facebook while OnePoll.com specializes on representative and demographically diverse sample ("well profiled using over 100 profile questions"). | An online survey conducted by Wedberg (2016) only found 20% of women cultivated a backup partner, but it is possibly a younger sample (average age 23 years with few participants older than 30) compared to the one from OnePoll.com and possibly a different country (UK vs US). Further, Wedberg included all women, while OnePoll.com only partnered women. Wedberg probably mainly included students from SUNY New Paltz along with some participants from Facebook while OnePoll.com specializes on representative and demographically diverse sample ("well profiled using over 100 profile questions"). | ||
Related to this, Fincham and May (2017), found that the gender gap in infidelity is closing (currently affecting 20–25% of all marriages, rising). This is an interesting development because men are known to exhibit stronger mate guarding behavior (see e.g. Buss, 2002). For example a poll of 2,000 British men and women for laundry specialists Dr. Beckmann published in the DailyMail (2012) revealed that 53% of women, but only 13% of men would forgive infidelity. An evolutionary explanation for stronger mate guarding in males could be that "men, but not women, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood" (see Buss, 2018). Men are also less likely to be infected by STDs and obviously cannot get pregnant themselves. | Related to this, Fincham and May (2017), found that the gender gap in infidelity is closing (currently affecting 20–25% of all marriages, rising). Wang (2018) presented graphs of infidelity by age showing that young adults of either sex are yielding roughly the same infidelity rates today. | ||
This is an interesting development because men are known to exhibit stronger mate guarding behavior (see e.g. Buss, 2002). For example a poll of 2,000 British men and women for laundry specialists Dr. Beckmann published in the DailyMail (2012) revealed that 53% of women, but only 13% of men would forgive infidelity. An evolutionary explanation for stronger mate guarding in males could be that "men, but not women, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood" (see Buss, 2018). Men are also less likely to be infected by STDs and obviously cannot get pregnant themselves, thus infidel men do not risk their main relationship as much compared to women, who, if they become pregnant, would drastically change the relationship at the detriment of the man's reproductive success by "wasting" his resources on a different man's offspring (from the selfish gene's perspective). | |||
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* Buss DM. 2002. ''Human Mate Guarding.'' [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12496732 Abstract]] [[https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2015/10/Buss-2002-human-mate-guarding.pdf FullText]] | * Buss DM. 2002. ''Human Mate Guarding.'' [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12496732 Abstract]] [[https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2015/10/Buss-2002-human-mate-guarding.pdf FullText]] | ||
* Wedberg NA. 2016. ''Partner insurance: Women may have backup romantic partners as a mating strategy'' [[https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/67467/Wedberg_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y FullText]] | * Wedberg NA. 2016. ''Partner insurance: Women may have backup romantic partners as a mating strategy'' [[https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/67467/Wedberg_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y FullText]] | ||
* Wang W. 2018. ''Who Cheats More? The Demographics of Infidelity in America'' [[https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-of-cheating-in-america Article]] | |||
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