Researchers from the article Infidelity and the Science of Cheating, written by Sharon Begley, have asked the following question to different ethnic groups of all ages and of both sexes: what distresses them more, emotional infidelity or sexual betrayal? The results were women find emotional infidelity more disturbing than men do, and men find sexual betrayal more disturbing than women do. These results varied slightly depending on how the question was asked, but the ratio remained almost the same.

Researchers found that men and women have different beliefs on sexual infidelity. Women believe that men think that "love implies sex more often then sex implies love (59)," and men believe that women think that "sex implies love about as strong as love implies sex (59)". The difference researchers explain is that there is an existence of a jealousy gender gap. In order to explain what causes the jealousy between genders s

Sharon Begley believes that "women are evolutionary programmed to become more distressed at emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity (58)." She believes this because women notice that men having sex are not necessarily in love, and that men do not form emotional attachments easily. On the other hand, if a man becomes emotionally involved with the other woman, their relationship may be jeopardized. He may desert his first wife. Consequently, it would be difficult for his first wife to bring up her children as a single parent.

This article was written to help educate our society on how men and women feel about infidelity by providing the reader with statistics and beliefs of both sexes. In addition, supplying the reader with comments and theories from psychologists, scientists, and researchers helps the reader develop an understanding of the difference of opinions on the same subject by those who study our societies.

Sharon Begley's founded opinion is that "if there is a lesson here, it may be this: be wary of single bullet theories advanced so brilliantly that their dazzle gets in the way of their content (59)." What she is implying is to not believe everything you hear. Be sure you look beneath the surface to understand the theory's meaning. She also states that "for all the brickbats bein

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