Professional misconduct: a new indication that your partner is twice as likely to cheat…
Sunday, July 30, 2023.
Alleged infidelities derailed the careers of Harvey Weinstein, Gary Hart, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Herman Cain, Anthony Weiner, and other prominent men. Men behaving badly is a boring cultural trope. So the findings of this recent study are hardly surprising…
Update! Wednesday, November 8, 2023.. the sh*t is about to hit the fan on this research…
New research has linked an inclination to cheat with a penchant for professional misconduct.
For the purposes of this study, Misconduct is defined as customer disputes that result in a settlement or award, employment separation after allegations, final regulatory judgments, final criminal actions, or final civil actions.
People who cheat at work are more likely to cheat on their partner as well.
Professional misconduct is linked to doubling the rate of marital infidelity, new research finds.
Another common sign of a cheating partner is having been unfaithful in past relationships.
Certain personality types are also more likely to cheat.
Men who are impulsive risk-takers are more likely to cheat on their partner.
Among women, being unhappy with their current relationship is linked with cheating.
On average, across men and women, extraverts are more likely to cheat on their partner, research finds.
We knew about the other correlations. We knew, for example, that extroverts have a wider social circle, from a probability perspective, they also will have more frequent opportunities to cheat.
The penchant for professional misconduct (perhaps an expression of poor impulse control?), is something altogether new in research findings…
In addition, we are deepening our understand of the constellation of impulsive, sensation-seeking traits that are indicative of poor impulse control. It’s also true that humans who score low on the personality trait of Conscientiousness are also more likely to engage in situational infidelity..
The latest conclusions about infidelity and professional misconduct come from an analysis of people using the Ashley Madison website… and data on consequential professional misconduct…
Ashley Madison is a site for married people to have affairs: its dubious slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair”.
I remember In 2015 when their site was hacked, At CTI we were inundated with calls when we blogged about it.
Specific details of 36 million users worldwide were released and picked over by journalists as well as the general public. It was a painfully public sh*t show.
But because this data has been public for 8 years… researchers have delved deeply into it.
The research correlated the Ashley Madison data with a separate cache of professional misconduct data collected on on over 11,000 humans with a variety of occupations, including financial counselors, C-level executives, and police officers.
By correlating these two discrete sets of data, the researchers were able to prove the correlation that humans who were found guilty of professional misconduct were twice as likely to have resorted to the Ashley Madison website to facilitate having an affair.
Dr. Samuel Kruger, study co-author, observed:
“This is the first study that’s been able to look at whether there is a correlation between personal infidelity and professional conduct.
We find a strong correlation, which tells us that infidelity is informative about expected professional conduct.”
And vice-versa, I might add. Thrive well, and Godspeed!
RESEARCH:
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Personal infidelity and professional conduct in 4 settings
John M. Griffin john.griffin@utexas.edu, Samuel Kruger https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6984-9764, and Gonzalo Maturana
Edited by George A. Akerlof, Georgetown University, and approved July 8, 2019 (received for review March 28, 2019)
July 30, 2019
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