What Psychology Says About Women Who Cheat - Macken Murphy

Macken Murphy is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne, a writer and a podcaster. Why do people cheat? Is it just the allure of novelty? Dissatisfaction in their current relationship? Fear of being left? Retaliation for their partner cheating? Macken's brand new study gives so many fascinating answers to these questions. Expect to learn what the evolutionary drivers are behind men's and women's infidelity, what this new science says about the Dual Mating and Mate Switching hypotheses, the top 3 reasons for why men and women both cheat, whether cheating is heritable, if there is such a thing as one and done cheating, the most common behaviours of somebody who is being unfaithful and much more… - 00:00 Groundbreaking New Research on Infidelity 10:09 Studying People Who Have Cheated 20:31 Are There Evolutionary Benefits to Men Cheating? 25:36 The Novelty of Infidelity 28:30 Most Surprising Research Takeaways 35:23 Can Women Separate Emotions From Sex? 46:20 Top 3 Motivations for Women Cheating 53:14 How Society Views Cuckolding 1:02:53 Men’s Motivations for Cheating 1:12:03 The Science Behind Jealous 1:20:28 What Are the Predictors of Infidelity? 1:28:57 How to Know if Someone is Cheating 1:33:22 What Counts as Cheating? 1:38:08 Can You Inherit Promiscuity? 1:44:33 People More Likely to Be Cheated on 1:49:16 Is Infidelity Natural? 1:56:19 Where to Find Macken - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Chris WilliamsonhostMacken Murphyguest

Aug 15, 20241h 57mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 15, 2024
Duration: 1h 57m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Macken Murphy is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne, a writer and a podcaster. Why do people cheat? Is it just the allure of novelty? Dissatisfaction in their current relationship? Fear of being left? Retaliation for their partner cheating? Macken's brand new study gives so many fascinating answers to these questions. Expect to learn what the evolutionary drivers are behind men's and women's infidelity, what this new science says about the Dual Mating and Mate Switching hypotheses, the top 3 reasons for why men and women both cheat, whether cheating is heritable, if there is such a thing as one and done cheating, the most common behaviours of somebody who is being unfaithful and much more… - 00:00 Groundbreaking New Research on Infidelity 10:09 Studying People Who Have Cheated 20:31 Are There Evolutionary Benefits to Men Cheating? 25:36 The Novelty of Infidelity 28:30 Most Surprising Research Takeaways 35:23 Can Women Separate Emotions From Sex? 46:20 Top 3 Motivations for Women Cheating 53:14 How Society Views Cuckolding 1:02:53 Men’s Motivations for Cheating 1:12:03 The Science Behind Jealous 1:20:28 What Are the Predictors of Infidelity? 1:28:57 How to Know if Someone is Cheating 1:33:22 What Counts as Cheating? 1:38:08 Can You Inherit Promiscuity? 1:44:33 People More Likely to Be Cheated on 1:49:16 Is Infidelity Natural? 1:56:19 Where to Find Macken - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Chris Williamson
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Macken Murphy
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Macken Murphy, What Psychology Says About Women Who Cheat - Macken Murphy explores new Study Revives Controversial Theory On Why Women Cheat The conversation explores competing evolutionary psychology theories about female infidelity: the traditional Dual Mating hypothesis versus the newer Mate Switching hypothesis. Macken Murphy describes a preregistered study of 254 men and women who actually cheated, directly pitting the two theories’ predictions against each other. Results show affair partners are rated as more physically attractive but worse as parents than primary partners, strongly supporting Dual Mating and undermining Mate Switching in this dataset. The discussion also covers motives for cheating, sex differences in jealousy, predictors of infidelity, and broader implications for how ‘natural’ monogamy and cheating are in humans.

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