Excerpted (and edited) from Facebook Affairs: The technology (be it Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Xbox Live etc) is simply not the culprit in affairs. Social media is not the bad guy, it didn’t make the affair happen, it didn’t cause the affair, it didn’t lure, seduce or entice someone into having an affair. Social network […]
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Infidelity Websites: An Exploration
Celia Walden and Ashley Madison, the Infidelity Website by Celia Walden (edited) Celia Walden meets the creator of world’s biggest infidelity website - and investigates the tawdry world of online cheating “Life is short. Have an affair.” The slogan gracing the home page of the world’s biggest infidelity website, Ashley Madison, reads more like a […]
Getting Rich: Organized Infidelity
AshleyMadison.com: Redbook Magazine Investigates by Ashley Reich (First published 29 March 2011) (edited) This month’s issue of Redbook magazine, on newsstands now, features a story about two reporters-one male, one female-who went undercover on AshleyMadison.com, the dating website for wannabe adulterers. Redbook editor-in-chief Jill Herzig stopped by the Today Show Tuesday with psychologist Dr. Jeff […]
The Emotional Infidelity Threat
The Silent But Deadly Threat to Your Relationship Source: hecheatedonme (edited) According to statistics, approximately half to almost 95 percent of all who cheat cite emotional dissatisfaction as a motivation for stepping out on their [spouse]. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to a growing phenomenon known as emotional infidelity, a non-sexual, yet […]
What is Infidelity?
What Constitutes Cheating Anyway? By Dr. Justin Lehmiller (edited) How have researchers operationalized infidelity in the past? What outcomes/predictors are associated with different “types” of infidelity? Researchers have defined infidelity (known scientifically as “extradyadic behavior”) in many different ways. Some have defined it in very narrow terms (e.g., having sexual intercourse with someone other than your […]