| | myLot Discussions| Who's having and affair and why? | | I am going to share an article and please share your views about this.This is what the article says:
Even infidelity has its price, new research suggests.Would-be participants in an extramarital affair tend to calculate both the economic and biological benefits beforehand, researchers from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Bryant University report.But factors that go into the decision differ slightly between men and women, said study author Bruce Elmslie, an economics professor at UNH.Women weigh factors including financial stability, education and whether the man is a good candidate to father a child, Elmslie wrote in a university news release."These factors do not come into play for men who, overall, are 7 percent more likely to cheat than women," he added. "The likelihood of a man having had an affair increases with age, and reaches a peak when a man is about 55 years old. It then decreases with age. For women, the peak is 45 years old.""The benefits of female infidelity reduce after the age of 40 because a woman would no longer benefit in terms of improved gene quality from the affair," he said. "Men also... | |
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