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Can praying for your partner reduce infidelity?

Eric Barker
November 30, 2011

If you can get them praying for you, they’re less likely to cheat:

Because religion and/or spirituality is integral to the lives of a majority of the world population, we conducted 3 studies on the role of prayer in romantic relationships. Study 1 (N = 375) showed that prayer for the partner predicted lower levels of extradyadic romantic behavior over a 6-week period, over and beyond relationship satisfaction, and initial levels of extradyadic romantic behavior. In Study 2 (N = 83), we used an experimental design to show that participants assigned to pray for each day for 4 weeks engaged in lower levels of extradyadic romantic behavior during that time, compared with those who engaged in daily positive thoughts about the partner or a neutral activity. Perception of the relationship as sacred mediated the relation between experimentally manipulated prayer and later infidelity. Study 3 (N = 23) showed that objective observers rated participants who had been praying for their partner for 4 weeks as more committed to their romantic relationship than control participants. The implications of these results are then discussed.

Source: “Faith and Unfaithfulness: Can Praying for Your Partner Reduce Infidelity?” from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, Vol. 99, No. 4, 649â659

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Title Can praying for your partner reduce infidelity?
Author Eric Barker
Date November 30, 2011 7:53 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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