Adulterers left in the dark

Adulterers are more likely to strike up a secret affair in the solace of the night, new research suggests.

A recent study featured in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that the presence of darkness gives cheating spouses the impression they are protected from unwanted attention.

The researchers, from the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina in the US, who carried out the study, compared the psychology behind the theory to that of when a child closes its eyes and believes no one can see them.

Granted, the adult activity of having a secret extramarital lover may be a little more complex, but there are many aspects of an adulterous relationship which must be kept in the dark, so to speak.

Cheating spouses often have to book hotel rooms under a false name and will take their mistresses for bit of nookie to locations where a shining light will not be shone on the affair.

As well as preferring darker environments, they also found that something as simple as wearing sunglasses can help to mask infidelities, which could shed light on why so many of those cheating celebrities like to wear mammoth-sized spectacles.

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