This just in: Being an empathetic partner can reduce the temptation to cheat. Yup, that’s the not-so-surprising result from a new study conducted by a team of psychologists from Reichman University in Israel and the University of Rochester in upstate New York.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Sex Research, consisted of three randomized experiments with a total of 408 participants (213 women and 195 men, ranging in age 20 to 47) who were in monogamous, heterosexual relationships of at least four months.
