Power corrupts, sexually too

 

AUGUST 12, 2011 Friday  Powerful People More Likely to Be Unfaithful 26.3% of 1,250 Dutch business professionals with marital partners reported having engaged in infidelity, according to a survey led by Joris Lammers of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. An analysis showed that people with greater power within their organizations are more likely to be unfaithful, mainly because of the increased confidence that power confers. The power-infidelity association applies to women as well as men, the researchers found. Source: Power Increases Infidelity Among Men and Women