A University of Texas research study shows that beautiful women are more likely to cheat on their significant others.

Women who are considered more attractive to others posses more of the hormone oestradiol, a form of oestrogen. Oestradiol also causes women to seek power.

This hormonal excess and need for power leads to beautiful women seeking multiple partners.

Dr. Kristina Durante, who conducted the research, said, however, that this need for multiple partners has nothing to do with a want for casual sex.