Quiz 10

RESULTS –
My hypothesis was greatly supported that women are indeed more aggressive when faced with acts of infidelity than men. There were a total of seven females and five males in this experiment. Every woman who was survey displayed an act of aggression, and only three of the five men showed acts of aggression. Woman were rated as follows, two acts of murder, one suicide, seven acts of physical aggression, four verbal acts of aggression, and one act of passive aggression (spreading rumors and/or taking pictures then showing them to other people). Men were rated as follows, zero murders, zero suicides, one act of physical aggression, zero acts of verbal aggression, and two passive acts of aggression.

DISCUSSION –
In doing this study, Men seemed to show more acceptance in that the relationship was over. They had more statements suggesting grief, opposed to woman who made more statements suggesting anger. For women it was a complete insult, and revenge is something that came as second nature to them. Men showed more strength in walking away as if the interest they had was lost. This supports the theory that men are more aggressive during the relationship and not during infidelity because they are protecting themselves against infidelity. Once infidelity has occurred the male has no reason to continue to have aggression. This also supports that women are becoming more aggressive. In this study there were women who’s first initial response was “I will kill him” and with men their first initial response was “I would be out of there” or “I would leave them a note on the table and leave for good”. It would be interesting to take this study a step further and survey people who have actually experienced infidelity.