Are Cheaters Hypocrites?
Warach, Josephs, and Gorman (2019) just published a study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin called “Are Cheaters Sexual Hypocrites? Sexual Hypocrisy, the Self-Serving Bias, and Personality Style.” Their study explores how the self-serving bias in relationship to infidelity can lead to sexual hypocrisy and how sexual hypocrisy is greater among certain personality styles. The self-serving bias is the tendency of individuals to take credit for their successes but to minimize blame for their failures or wrongdoings often by blaming others.
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