When I read a piece today about the possibility that Al Gore and Bill Clinton: were infidelity buddies by Manning Infidelity Examiner and private investigator, I began to wonder, is infidelity contagious?
As I wrote last week, we know that happiness in social networks is contagious. Happy people tend to have happy friends. We have also grown up with the old saying that misery loves company. When it comes to divorce, that may be true.
According to CNN.com, “Divorce is contagious in social networks, a new study says. The idea is based on the theory of social contagion, or the spread of behavior or emotion through a group. Divorce, as with happiness, might be contagious
But what about infidelity?
I have always thought that the more we hear about those who are cheating, the more relaxed people become about cheating. This is the reason I am somewhat of a fanatic about accurate statistics. *
I always seem to think that if it appears as if infidelity is an epidemic, then people might get the idea that everyone is doing it and find it easier to fall into the unhealthy pattern.
A culture of infidelity
As I began searching the Internet to check out my theory, I found this article by Thomas H. Humphreys, both a journalist and a private investigator. Humphreys talks about staking out an upscale gym when he and his partner began to wonder: Please go to: