Correction

Regarding Tagler, M. J., and Jeffers, H. M. (2013). Sex differences in attitudes toward partner infidelity. Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 821–832: The authors wish to correct values in the originally published manuscript. Specifically, incorrect 95% confidence intervals around the Cohen's d values were reported on page 826 of the manuscript where we reported the within-sex simple effects for the significant Participant Sex × Infidelity Type interaction (first paragraph), and for attitudes toward partner infidelity (second paragraph). Corrected values are presented in bold below. The authors would like to thank Dr. Bernard Beins at Ithaca College for bringing these errors to our attention.

Men rated sexual infidelity significantly more distressing (M = 4.69, SD = 0.74) than they rated emotional infidelity (M = 4.32, SD = 0.92), F(1, 322) = 23.96, p < .001, d = 0.44, 95% CI [0.23, 0.65], but there was little difference between women's ratings of sexual (M = 4.80, SD = 0.48) and emotional infidelity (M = 4.76, SD = 0.57), F(1, 322) = 0.48, p = .29, d = 0.08, 95% CI [−0.10, 0.26].

As expected, men rated sexual infidelity (M = 1.44, SD = 0.70) more negatively than they rated emotional infidelity (M = 2.66, SD = 1.37), F(1, 322) = 120.00, p < .001, d = 1.12, 95% CI [0.85, 1.39]. Although women also rated sexual infidelity (M = 1.40, SD = 0.62) more negatively than they rated emotional infidelity (M = 2.09, SD = 1.10), this difference was not as large and thus in the evolutionary theory supportive direction, F(1, 322) = 72.03, p < .001, d = 0.77, 95% CI [0.60, 0.94].