Recently, some studies have emerged indicating that women—and to a lesser extent men—show above-chance accuracy in judging sexual unfaithfulness from looking at faces of the opposite sex.
For the latest study, a group of scientists from the University of Western Australia decided to investigate this issue further while also looking at how good people are at detecting sexual unfaithfulness when looking at faces of the same sex.
“We found above-chance accuracy in judgements of unfaithfulness from same-sex faces in men but not women,” the authors wrote in the study. “Conversely, we found above-chance accuracy for opposite-sex faces in women but not men.”
Overall then, the researchers found that both male and female participants made relatively accurate judgements about unfaithfulness for men’s faces but not for women’s.
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