Infidelity is us in his face
Participants in the study should look at the face of strangers for three seconds and then judge whether it is a faithful and / or trustworthy person. The persons to assess, had previously made in an anonymous questionnaire indicate whether they had already betrayed a partner in the past, or stretched out someone's partner. According to Professor Simmons, director of the evolutionary center of UWA, lay women to a much higher accuracy to the day than men and were able to assess very carefully whether they sat across a Fremdgänger. In only 38 percent of cases, the women estimated their opponent a false, while men were further invest in 77 percent of cases.
"It was particularly surprising that the accuracy of the women was far above the random value. There was a specific relationship between the assessment of women and the actual behavior of the male counterpart. Men managed this reversed hardly" said Professor Simmons. Men "Women have developed over time a better ability to assess people precisely because wrong decisions on women basically fall back strongly against it met in the study a wrong decision after: In his opinion, the discrepancy between men and women is due to various factors. other, which is due in circumstances that most males in the animal world - and of course men -. have fewer demands on their partners because they have less to lose if this turns out to be untrue clear they are ultimately as horned husband because , however must not with other things, such as pregnancy, birth and child education, deal. This is now time solely on women. Men also have more opportunities to offspring, with other partners. "
The research team believes that their study provides the first evidence that infidelity can actually read in the face of a man. While previous studies have focused on debunking infidelity because of good behavior, show the current measurement results that can be drawn on their loyalty behavior solely by studying the face of a stranger conclusions.
Researchers have also found in the study that more attractive people are generally considered to be trustworthy. It comes down to a so-called halo effect, which means that the appeal so strongly influenced the people assess that other characteristics of the person are strongly pushed into the background.
"Extremely was that subjects who stamp interesting" unfaithful "were impressed, were judged not necessarily as untrustworthy. Obviously, these are two different things and one is looking faces after various clues from," said Professor Simmons.
Source: Australia [University of Western Australia]
