Gaydar: Do You Have It? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAYDAR
• GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?
• MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH
• HAVG A ‘GAYDAR’ MEANS THAT YOU WILL EASILY REGNIZE WHO IS GAY
• THE SCIENCE OF “GAYDAR”: HOW WELL CAN WE DETECT OTHER PEOPLE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?

GAYDAR

Slang: the supposed abily to regnize through observatn or tun that a person is gay. Women's gaydar improv durg ovulatn. My gaydar even don’t work that well the prent, let alone retroactively.

The thors were then ready to p their predictn mol agast humans what would bee a notor gaydar petn.

The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'gaydar.

GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

blend of gay and radar. The first known e of gaydar was. Dictnary Entri Near gaydar.

“Gaydar. Nothg illtrat this better than our apparent need to figure out who’s gay and who isn’t. Those who have the abily to divi the world to gay and non-gay are said to have gaydar, and you need not be gay to have .

If you’re gay, then mak sense why you might want to know (support, romantic or sex partner, muny), but if you’re not, then ’s anyone’s gus. Why we want or need to know who’s gay—to repulse , to igne cursy, not to marry one, to jo them—is not the issue this post.

MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH

In one of the bt overviews of gaydar basics, Nicholas Rule and Rav Alaei simply state that we “rely on a variety of subtle cu that gui judgment and behavr, ” even whout nscly realizg what we are dog or what we are relyg on.

Both gay and straight dividuals have gaydar, though to varyg gre. Rule and others, participants tegorized male fac as straight or gay better than chance (above 60% rather than a 50% chance level), even when the viewg time was merely one-twentieth of a send, fac didn’t differ emotnal exprsns, and hairstyl were cropped out. From the evince, many of the judgments were ma (whether nscly or not) based on a genr versn prciple—gay men as femized and lbians as masculized.

HAVG A ‘GAYDAR’ MEANS THAT YOU WILL EASILY REGNIZE WHO IS GAY

For example, varyg om straight men, rearch shows that gay men have shorter nos, smaller nostrils and, varyg om straight women, lbians have thicker mouths and unrb. I n’t answer this qutn, and ’s a difficult one to terme bee we don’t know what means to rec “random” gays and lbians, pecially bee many might not intify as such (e.

G., not aware they’re gay, are not sufficiently out to participate gay rearch, or don’t want to give their data).

THE SCIENCE OF “GAYDAR”: HOW WELL CAN WE DETECT OTHER PEOPLE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?

For example, the gay photographs ed gaydar rearch are taken om “out” dividuals (on datg webs, Facebook, Craigslist). Might their genr versn have ed them to self-intify as gay/lbian and to have disclosed this fact?