Are women or men more likely to be golddiggers? New study reveals sinister answer

If she’s made of money, he’s sticking like honey — can ya dig it? Cash often acts as the ultimate adhesive that binds a well-to-do tycoon to a money-hungry grifter.Those opportunistic, parasitic “gold diggers,” whom Kanye West and Jamie Foxx melodically scolded in their 2005 chart-topper about women who strategically rope rich men into romantic relationships for their own financial gain. But now, decades later, 2026 data reveals that gals aren’t the only ones dating for funds — guys are guilty of the grubbing, too. “Gold digging, often stereotyped as female behavior, is in fact not limited to women,” confirmed study authors for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Institute, in Vienna, Austria, in the new report. Researchers, helmed by psychologist Lennart Freyth, even referenced West and Foxx’s “Gold Digger” song in their analysis, quoting the lyrics, “‘She takes my money when I’m in need.’”“This description captures three core elements of the public conception of gold diggers,” the scientists wrote, dissecting the ditty.

“First, exploiting money from others, second, not dating poor mates, third, being female.”Shockingly, however, the insiders found that men with left-leaning political affiliations boast the highest rates of gold digging, which they define as a “partly psychopathy-linked social tactic.”“In both sexes, gold digging is linked to narcissism, psychopathy, date investment expectations, and mate value,” investigators explained, adding, however, that “sadism” is uniquely exclusive to women of the predatory lifestyle. The experts polled 351 ladies and gentlemen — all approximately age 30, representing a variety of sexual orientations — to determine their individual preferences for materialistic advantages versus intimacy-oriented partners. The ipsative measure — or self-assessment — examined each participant’s personality (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism), societ...