From fear and guilt: negative perceptions of Ashley Madison users

Hackathorn, Jana; Daniels, Jordan; Ashdown, Brien K.; Rife, Sean C.

doi:10.1080/19419899.2017.1316767

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“…The hackers took issue with the website and demanded its immediate termination. When Ashley Madison refused to discontinue operations, "Impact Team" defaced their website, breached their database, and publicly released the names of their subscribers (Hackathorn et al 2017).…”

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Website defacement and routine activities: considering the importance of hackers’ valuations of potential targets

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Journal of Crime and Justice

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Website defacement and routine activities: considering the importance of hackers’ valuations of potential targets

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Maimon

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Journal of Crime and Justice

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“…Other studies find evidence that who use Tinder while in an exclusive relationship score higher on sub-clinical psychopathy, and lower on agreeableness and conscientiousness, compared to Tinder users who are single (Timmermans et al, 2018 ). Those using general dating apps such as Tinder to have affairs may avoid some of the popular demonization toward Ashley Madison users, who are especially likely to be viewed negatively by those high in trait jealousy or sex-oriented guilt (Hackathorn et al, 2017 ). Overall, findings from these studies show evidence that online infidelities are psychologically similar to offline infidelities.…”

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No Remorse: Sexual Infidelity Is Not Clearly Linked with Relationship Satisfaction or Well-Being in Ashley Madison Users

2023

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Past research on extradyadic relationship experiences (including infidelity) often suffers from restricted sampling and retrospective accounts, which may have given researchers a distorted image of what it is like for people to have affairs. In this research, we shed light on the experiences people have during their affairs with a sample of registered users on Ashley Madison , a website geared toward facilitating infidelity. Our participants completed questionnaires about their primary (e.g., spousal) relationships, as well as personality traits, motivations to seek affairs, and outcomes. Findings from this study challenge widely held notions about infidelity experiences. Analyses revealed that participants were highly satisfied with their affairs and expressed little moral regret. A small subset of participants reported having consensually open relationships with their partners, who knew about their activity on Ashley Madison . In contrast to previous findings, we did not observe low relationship quality (i.e., satisfaction, love, commitment) to be a major driver of affairs and the affairs did not predict decreases in these relationship quality variables over time. That is, among a sample of individuals who proactively sought affairs, their affairs were not primarily motivated by poor dyadic/marital relationships, their affairs did not seem to have a strong negative impact on their relationships, and personal ethics did not play a strong role in people’s feelings about their affairs. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10508-023-02573-y.

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The C-Word (Cheater): Infidelity as the Ultimate Threat

Walker

2020

Chasing Masculinity

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From fear and guilt: negative perceptions of Ashley Madison users

Cited by 8 publications

References 67 publications

Website defacement and routine activities: considering the importance of hackers’ valuations of potential targets

Website defacement and routine activities: considering the importance of hackers’ valuations of potential targets

No Remorse: Sexual Infidelity Is Not Clearly Linked with Relationship Satisfaction or Well-Being in Ashley Madison Users

The C-Word (Cheater): Infidelity as the Ultimate Threat

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