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From: Bloomberg Businessweek

Powerful Women as Likely to Cheat as Men, Study Finds

Bloomberg Businessweek:

Women in powerful positions are just as likely as men to cheat on their spouses, according to new research.

It’s widely believed that men are more likely than women to cheat on their spouses, but power appears to be a more important factor than gender, according to the study published April 28 in the journal Psychological Science.

“There has been a lot of research in the past that indicates that gender is the strongest predictor of infidelity, but none of these studies have been done on powerful women,” Joris Lammers, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, said in a journal news release.

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