From: NPR
What Science Tells About Power And Infidelity
June 15, 2011
NPR:
On tonight’s All Things Considered, NPR’s science correspondent Shankar Vedantam takes on a subject we’ve been covering quite a bit lately: Powerful people caught up in sex scandals.
But Shankar wanted to get at a question that’s been the talk around the water cooler: Why does it seem that the one embroiled in a sex scandal is always a person in power and always a guy?
Just take a listen to this montage of mea-culpas from leading politicians.
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‘Truth Games’ http://is.gd/gAg3ZZ explores issues of infidelity in 1970s London UK, when the freedoms of the swinging 60s began to run into trouble. It’s the two blazing hot summers of 75 and 76, and a group of friends are getting way out of their depth in infidelity. Thought-provoking.
Not to defend the guys in power, but women cheat too — in most cases these guys are caught with a woman — sometimes she is married also.
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