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Researchers at the University of Western Australia have suggested that men are capable of successfully determining if a woman is a cheater just by sampling looking at her photograph.
In the study, participants were given 17 cards, each with two photos of different women on them. These women were matched for age and ethnicity. While one of the women had been proven loyal to her partner, the other lady had been caught cheating on her existing partner in the past.
The participants were then asked to identify which of the two women was a cheater.
The findings of the study revealed that majority of the participants were able to correctly identify which lady duped their partner. In fact, men were able to guess correctly in 55 to 59 percent of the tests, the Mirror UK reports.
According to Dr. Samantha Leivers, the lead researcher of the study, the result is “statistically significant but modest.” Although the researchers don’t consider the result 100 percent accurate, they find it fascinating that participants are showing accuracy from the limited information given.
“We show for the first time that men’s judgments of faithfulness from images of women can contain a kernel of truth when they are able to directly compare images in a forced choice task,” Dr. Leivers said.
The researchers intend to conduct further research to determine the link between emotions and expression.
“More research is needed to determine the visual cues that men use to make their judgments of faithfulness, including emotion expression and other face gesture clues,” they said.
Featured image credits to The Daily Mail UK.
