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Women's reactions to cheating aren't identical across every culture.
A study involving university students in Portugal and Brazil examined emotional versus sexual infidelity.
In both samples, men and women were more affected by emotional infidelity.
Researchers also found that sociocultural variables—including masculinity, femininity, and culture-of-honor beliefs—were related to response patterns.
This complicates the popular idea that reactions to cheating can be explained by biological *** alone.
How someone has learned to understand love, loyalty, gender, and relationships can influence how betrayal is interpreted.
Sometimes what cheating means to a woman can be as important as what physically happened.
© The Journal of Psychology (2018)