Allrelationshipsare different , and people can interchange and improve their own behavior . However , a while of research has get evidence that stake up the honest-to-goodness " once a cheater , always a cheater " normal when it number to rest faithful in relationship .
Researchers from the University of Denver want to look at whether unfaithfulness in a previous family relationship was a risk of infection factor for unfaithfulness in the next relationship . To do this , they looked at 484 people in mixed - gender romantic relationships , and ask them about their intimate activity outside of their current relationship ( whether they had been chisel or not ) as well as whether they were suspicious their partners were cheating .
They then succeed these the great unwashed through from this relationship to their next relationship , to measure whether people who said they ’d wander in the first relationship went on to chicane in the next one .
The study , which followed them over a five - year period , find that hoi polloi who cheat in their first human relationship were three times more potential to cheat on on their next cooperator than those who stick around faithful .
The discipline also found that those who suspect their first married person of cheat were four time more likely to have suspicions that their next spouse was chouse .
Strangely , people who knew for certain that their first partner had cheated , rather than just suspecting it , were twice as likely to report that their subsequent partner had also cheat .
The authors wrote that the study , aptly titled"Once a Cheater , Always a Cheater ? Serial Infidelity Across Subsequent Relationships " , showed that premature cheating was an significant risk factor for infidelity in the next relationship . Basically , if they have shaft before , there ’s a much in high spirits opportunity that they ’ll do it again .
The psychologists assure for demographic risk factors , and for sex and marital position . So if they betray in their first kinship with someone they were n’t marital to , they were still more likely to cheat in the second relationship even if they were married this time .
The authors acknowledge that the sample distribution size of it was small , and that further report want to be done , including inquiry on other type of relationship than purely miscellaneous - gender relationship . However , they hope that the work could lead to novel interventions to preclude serial infidelities in relationships .
The field is published inArchives of Sexual Behavior .
An earlier translation of this article was published inAugust 2017 .
