This was published in 2018 in the Journal of Sex Research
Jase: I did bring it up a little bit in the comments section when we took a little break, but that wasn’t the core focus of it, so I didn’t want to completely derail it for that, but yes, I did try to bring it up to be like, Hey, I’m having a problem with some of the ways you’re talking about gender here.
Dedeker: The researchers were curious to understand if there’s a relationship between engaging in infidelity and the development of adulthood
Emily: Yes. Well, all right. I think the question is, why do people cheat? Because I think many of us have been in a situation where this comes up or we’re around people who have cheated. It is prevalent in our society. We wanted to look at some reasons is a 15 year age difference too much why people cheat and then also are the reasons why non monogamous people cheat similar to those in traditional relationships?
Just a little side note, we did an episode not too long ago on identity and relationships which was episode 330, and there’s an article that provides an interesting tie-in to some of the themes that we discuss on that episode and then additionally, the study and this article that we’re about to talk about, there were a bunch of questions and discussions and theories posed regarding attachment styles.