How do men and women judge cheating differently, according to Daniel Cox's survey?

Daniel Cox says roughly eight or nine in ten Americans call infidelity morally wrong. His team split a sample, asking one group about a man who cheats and another about a woman who cheats. Men judged both the same, and women judged male cheating the same way men did. Young women stood out: they were far less likely to call a woman's cheating wrong in all circumstances.

• Cox offers possible reasons including power dynamics, a stronger sense of shared fate among young women, and more experience of being cheated on.
• Cox stresses these explanations are hypotheses the survey did not test.

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