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Mahalia Jackman's article, "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions, there is an overwhelming amount of people who believe that cheating is okay and that is has benefited them in many ways. From the work by Buunk and Vandriel, "Reports that individuals who were involved in extradyadic relations believe that such transgressions led to personal growth and increased self esteem." (Jackman, 2014, pg. 73) Therefore, stating that there is somehow a "benefit" when cheating. This is quite absurd because the person you are to be with is it. There should be no leaving and then coming back to your original spouse. If the couple is not fully committed then they should not stay together rather then cheating on them to boost your self esteem.

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In the journal entry "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" by Mahalia Jackman discusses that discusses that behaviors our each other in a relationship may cause cheating and/or keep people from cheating. She discusses the two stages of what happens when someone may end up cheating. "It was developed from the theory of reasoned action, which maintains that actual behaviour is directly linked to one's intention to perform an action." (Jackman, 2014, g.73) In the research in the journal entry, peoples behavior towards things like jealousy can cause the respond of cheating.

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Mahalia Jackman’s article “Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions” is focused around searching for the answer the question of what correlates infidelity intentions among a sample of cheaters. The paper finds attitudes, social approval, and perceived ease of attracting a partner are positively related to infidelity intentions.

Whether religious or not, when a person makes a commitment to someone that they will love and cherish them for the rest of their lives that is a commitment that should not be broken. No matter whether it is a Catholic wedding or a wedding ceremony done in town hall, two people are being joined together and promising their sole love to be focused upon their spouse and their children. The author, Mahalia Jackman, states in her introduction, “ Many societies disapprove of infidelity and consider unfaithful behaviour morally wrong and unjustifiable.” (Jackman, 2014). She is saying that not only do a majority of the societies in today’s world believe that adultery is bad, but they also believe that it is morally wrong and never okay under any circumstances. It is especially unacceptable  now that, no matter your belief or religions view on the topic, divorce is legal. If you find yourself unsatisfied in any area of your marriage so much that you are willing to commit adultery, you need to either join couples therapy and counseling or get a divorce, because there is no longer sole love between two people.

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This article discusses the attitudes of people who lean  the idea of infidelity being acceptable.  For example, in the article males supported the idea the most : " more positive attitudes towards infidelity than females". This quote suggest that the boys will more cheat than the girls. Contrastly , the boys and girls are equal. A girl can cheat on a boy as often as a boy can cheat on a girl. The only reason that a person will have if he cheat on his partner is that he doesn't like his partner.

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In the article, "Understanding the cheating heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" Mahalia Jackman discusses that many people engage infidelity, and that it could cause diseases. Jackman also mentions the positive effects from infidelity. "Meanwhile, Jones and Burdette (1994) report that individuals who engage in affairs often think that their primary relationship improved due to their unfaithfulness" (Jackman, 2014, pg 73). Therefore, stating that researchers think that cheating can have positive effects on a relationship. It can cause two people to improve their relationship, and work on making themselves better. In a way this could be true, if the relationship even works out after the act of infidelity. No one knows if their relationship will improve after or if they would just cheat again, but who would want to be cheated on to improve their relationship? That is something you should do while staying faithful to you significant other.

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In the article "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intention?" is about why people cheat. There are many factors that can cause a person to cheat. "...prevalence of infidelity may be even higher in dating relationships." (Jackman, 2014, pg 72) When people are dating they are less committed to their significant other, and there can be less consequences in the case of infidelity. In marriage, people are more committed to their significant others and there can be higher consequences for infidelity.

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In Mahalia's article, "Under the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" I chose to focus on her section "Conceptual Model and Key Hypothesis". In the section she focuses on behavioral and attitudinal intentions to determine the possibility or reason for infidelity. According to the author, there is a substantial amount of influence on the choice of whether to cheat from the person's own behavior and attitude, the author argues, "It would be plausible to assume that one's attitude toward infidelity behaviors would be the most valuable psychological construct in predicting intent to be unfaithful." (Jackman, 2014, Pg. 73-74) The author is saying that someone's own attitude will be the biggest factor on whether or not they may choose to cheat. This is true because people tend to believe in things or that they think is right so strongly, they tend to have wrong doings or do things completely out of character without thinking or even second guessing themselves.

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In a 2014 study conducted by Mahalia Jackman, the influence of environmental and cultural stimuli on infidelity is discussed. Among these stimuli were family, friends, education, marital status, age, and faith. In her paper titled "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" Jackman states, "Indeed, the empirical literature to date shows strong support for the hypothesis that the sacred tend to be more faithful than the secular" (Jackman, 2014, pg. 81). Jackman's study shows that more people of faith tend to stick to monogamy than secular people due to strict religious standards. However, it is necessary to understand that morals adopted by an individual also play a key role in this connection. One may say that they are religious, but then they could go against the rules that they claim to be committed to. At the same time, a secular person, while having no specific "moral guide", may have certain moral standards adopted through their education and/or experiences that they stick to. In both cases, these individuals' environments have played a role in determining their attitude towards infidelity. In today's society, temptation can go either way.

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In the article it argues the fact that cheating on your spouse can be benificial to you. It argues the fact that cheating on your spouse can actually make your relationship better. In the article it states that in a study cheating,"led to personol growth and increased self esteem."(2014,M.Jackman,73).The author clearly belives that cheating is benificail to the cheater. However the author totaly disregards the feelings of the person being cheated on. Cheating may be good for the cheater but however in the long run it is bad for the whole relationship.

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In Mahalia Jackman's article "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?", Jackman discusses the different motives that are behind infidelity. She also analyzed some harmful effects that infidelity has on a person's health. As claimed by Jackman, "This is somewhat worrying given the negative effects of unfaithfulness" (Jackman, 2014, p. 72). This statement, as well as statistical information in the article, reveals that infidelity can cause damage to a person's psychological and physical health as well as drive them do to something that is out of character for them. It is not hard to envision a correlation between a decline in health and unfaithfulness. Discovering that your partner was unfaithful could be a detrimental blow to an individual's mental and physical health.

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In this article, " Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intention", it talks bout cheating on your significant other. One quote from this article is, " In fact, a recent meta-analysis by Tafoya and Spitzberg suggests that 34% of men and 24% of woman have engaged in extramarital sexual relations."(Jackman, 2017,pg.g 72)) In the whole article, it seems like the author is trying to come up with excuses for people who have affairs on their significant other. I don't disagree and I don't agree with this quote, but I very much disagree with the idea and act of cheating. Cheating is not healthy and it is not okay to do. You will hurt the person who once loved you the most.

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Infidelity is an issue with many causes. Mahalia Jackman explains different reasons for infidelity in her article "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What determines Infidelity Intentions?". There are many reasons for infidelity, but some tend to be more prevalent than others. "Some researchers associate richer, younger, and more educated individuals with more liberal attitudes and so, are more likely to engage in extra dyadic behaviors" (Jackman, 80). Infidelity is more likely to occur within this demographic because there is not enough negative consequences associated with this behavior. People with these living conditions will be more likely to cheat because they have the resources to do so.

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In this article, it discusses cheating and infidelity. The author of the article, Mahalia Jackman, talks about the cheating on a spouse and expresses that cheating is not frowned upon. In the article it says, "cheating led to personal growth and increased self esteem."(2014, M Jackman, 73) This shows that Jackman believes cheating on a significant other is healthy and should be an option for relationships, when in reality, cheating will do more harm than good. Even if the significant other is  alright with it or tolerates it, the trust however will never be the same knowing that they have cheated.

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In "Understanding the cheating heart: What determines infidelity intentions?" it discusses how attitude and behavior determines infidelity intentions. "Attitudes towards infidelity are modeled as gander, age, marital status, education, income, religiousness, and experience with infidelity." (Trafimow and Finlay, 1996) This quote shows how there are many factors to peoples attitudes towards infidelity and that everyone's opinions differ. Gender is one of the most common predictors of infidelity. It states that males are more likely to engage in infidelity than women. (Buss 1994,1996) Younger, non educated people are more likely to engage in infidelity also. Religion is is also a key predictor; religious affiliated individuals are less likely to be unfaithful. ( Burdette, 2007; Mattingly, 2010) People who have been unfaithful in the past hold more favorable attitudes towards cheating while people who have been the victims of infidelity hold more negative attitudes towards infidelity. ( Sharpe, 2013) Also married people are more invested in their unions and face higher exit costs, therefore will be more likely to be faithful. (Treas and Giesen, 2000)

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Mahilia Jamckman's article, "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intention?" brings statistical reasoning and backing to the shocking amount of cheating couples worldwide. Jackman's article attempts to discover the determinants of infidelity intentions. To quote Jackman, "...persons who have been unfaithful in the past hold more favorable attitudes toward cheating while persons who have been victims of infidelity hold more negative views toward infidelity"(Jackman, 2014, p.81). Jackman's discovery, backed by statistical evidence, shows that people are hurt by cheating. Cheating may seem good for an individual, but it often is not good for the whole relationship. Before going down a path you know will hurt your loved ones, stop and think, "Is it worth it?"

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The article gives you what is bad about cheating and why it is bad. It also says what is reason for cheating and why people do it. The article states, " this paper suggests that greater infidelity intentions can be found among individuals who: Have a social network who would support their infidelity." (2014, Jackman, 81.) When people are surrounded by others that have good morals they are going to be less apt to cheat; if people are around others that have cheated this may cause them to sway in their values. People that are in relationships need to surround themselves with individuals with good morals and values.By following these standards the temptations to commit adultery would not be as high as they would be with a group of people that doesn't care about their marriages or relationships.

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The article, "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" by Mahalia Jackman, discusses all of the different factors that most commonly lead to infidelity. There are many different reasonings she discusses, but one that sticks out is the factor that being a male makes you more likely to be unfaithful. Jackman informs, "...women, due to internal fertilization and gestation, are more likely to benefit form long-term partner commitment and affluent partners who can provide resources that are necessary for survival; males, on the other hand, can impregnate multiple females and the desire to achieve genetic success leads men, more so than women, to engage in infidelity" (Jackman, 2014). This statement seems logical because women get a lot more out of and feel more connected in a long term relationship. Having children is a more intimate experience for women because it is their one child, where men can create a child with whoever, whenever they want.

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In Mahalia Jackman's article, "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?", she discusses the possible reasons people have affairs. In this article, she touches base on if the social norm is monogamy, why do individuals cheat? "Finally as suggested by Dainton and Gross(2008), for some individuals, engaging in infidelity may be perceived a a way to maintain a relationship by providing rewards not found in the primary relationship"Jackman, M. (2015). Understanding the cheating heart: what determines infidelity intentions? Sexuality & Culture. 19, 72-84 DOI:10.1007/s12119-014-9248-z. What she means by this is some people  try to preserve their relationship by cheating because they feel they aren't getting "rewards". However, there are so many better and healthier ways to preserve a relationship. Moreover, if you are not satisfied in your relationship, you should try to work something out, not look for "rewards" in others.

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In Mahalia Jackman's article "Understanding the Cheating heart: What determines Infidelity Intentions?'', Jackman discusses about people cheating on there significant others and why they do it. Jackman discusses the percentages of men and women that engage in extramarital sexual relations. In this article Daiton and Gross said "For some individuals, engaging in infidelity maybe perceived as a way to maintain a relationship by providing rewards not found in the primary relationship'' (2014, Jackman, pg.73). In this article the author talks about how cheating is fine to do if your significant other is fine with it.

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The article "Understanding the Cheating Heart: What Determines Infidelity Intentions?" The author shows how attitude can lead to unfaithfulness. The people who think its easy to cheat will have a higher infidelity intentions. The quote "Many societies disapprove of infidelity and consider unfaithful behavior morally wrong and unjustifiable."(Jackman,2015,72). This quote really stands out because in some cases 35% of men and 24% of women have engaged in extramarital sexual relations. These numbers are crazy to think about, it shows how the society is unfaithful. Maybe if more people would disapprove of cheating the numbers would be less and more couples would be happy. With having a bad attitude people tend not to care and will cheat and not feel bad about it because they were happy. It shows that people who are married are more likely to be faithful to their spouse and people who are unfaithful are the ones who are not married.

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This article discusses how behavior and attitude have an effect on infidelity. "Attitudes towards infidelity are modeled as gender, age, marital status, education, income, religiousness and experience with infidelity." Many factors go into infidelity is what this quote is stating. For example, gender is one of the biggest products in infidelity. Men tend to do it more often then women. The article also talks about if married couples are more invested in their union then they are more likely to stay faithful.

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This article discuses infidelity and how it takes place in many relationships. "While there is a large body of work citing the negative concomitants of infidelity, there are a few works that suggest infidelity may have some positive effects." (Jackman, 2014) This statement is saying that in some ways cheating can be okay and acceptable. This is absurd. In no way is cheating beneficial or alright. If you have a marriage problem, all you have to do is talk to your spouse about it.

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Inside this article by Mahalia Jackman, she goes through all of the positives of having an affair while in a marriage. Like on page 73 where she stated "individuals who engage in affairs often think that their primary relationship improved due to their unfaithfulness" (2014,Jackman, Pg.73). Inside this sentence Jackman clearly states that those who engage in extramarital affairs will gain from it. However how many relationships are there that have had a spouse commit an affair, and remain in a strong thriving relationship.

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In the article "Understanding the cheating heart: What determines infidelity intentions?" It talks about how attitude and behavior dictates infidelity intentions. "Attitudes towards infidelity are modeled as gender, age, marital status, education, income, religiousness, and experience with infidelity." (Trafimow and Finlay, 1996). This quote displays how there are several factors to peoples attitudes towards infidelity, and that anybody's opinions alter. Gender is a frequent predictor of infidelity. It says that males are more likely to attract in infidelity than with women. (Buss, 1994-1996). Younger, unscholarly people are more likely to attract in infidelity as well. Religion is a key factor of infidelity also. It says that religiously affiliated citizens are not likely to be unfaithful. (Burdette, 2007; Mattingly, 2010). People that have been unfaithful in the past hold more favorable attitudes towards cheating, where as people that have been victims of infidelity have more negative attitudes towards infidelity. (Sharpe, 2013). Married couples are more invested in their unions and come to higher exit costs, so they would be more likely to be loyal and trustworthy. (Treas and Giesen, 2000). The greater infidelity intentions can  be found among individuals who have been unfaithful in the past, low levels of religion, have favorable attitudes towards infidelity, and are male. Cheaters my feel this is a good idea for them, but in the long run, it can hurt the entire relationship.

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In Mahalia Jackman's article Understanding the Cheating heart, she explains the many specific factors and hypothesis when it comes to infidelity. Even down to gender and financial situations can influence cheating. "Persons who have been unfaithful to their partners have more liberal attitudes towards infidelity than those who have always been faithful..." In the quote Jackman states that people are more likely to cheat if they feel they can get away with it than those who wish to be faithful to their spouse. Some other factors that influence cheating are gender and financial situation. Young ,rich people are more likely to cheat rather than poor, young people. Men are more likely to cheat than woman because women can get pregnant at anytime while men can't, giving them more infidelity freedom. Therefore, even though not all cheaters fall into these categories but more often then not they do.