Cheating
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Well, why shouldn't they? Because it's wrong. But is it? Cheating is in many ways in the eye of the beholder, for most of what passes as cheating is not seen as such by the cheater, as Shermer (2004) argues. Most of us believe (and this is not simply a matter of self deception) that we are in fact doing the right thing most of the time. This paper examines the psychology behind cheating, looking especially at those instances in which the person whom others believe to be or accuse of cheating see themselves in a very different light.The question of why people cheat depends in large measure on what arena of human action we are talking about. If we are talking about sex - and "cheating" is probably applied to sexual behavior and infidelity more than to any other arena - it has a great deal to do with human fragility. And especially male psychological fragility. And the rate at which men cheat on their partners (first estimated in the Kinsey report and verified since) suggest that there are indeed a large number of fragile men out there: To whatever degree, men do cheat and the
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