If She Cheats, He'd Prefer It Be a Woman

Men are more likely to stay with girlfriends who have cheated on them with other women than those who’ve cheated with another man, a University of Texas study suggests. Women, however, are the opposite: they’re more likely to stay with a man who’s cheated with a woman than one who’s cheated with a man, says the study published in Personality and Individual Differences.

A father-daughter research team asked 700 students to imagine partners of three months cheating on them. Men showed a 50% likelihood of staying with women who’d cheated with other women and a 22% likelihood of sticking with girlfriends who’d been with men. Women showed 28% odds of continuing to date men who’d cheated with women and 21% odds of staying with boyfriends who’d cheated with other men.