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Contents:
- FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'
- DEMOGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENC FACIAL MASCULY PREFERENC AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN CHA
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'
* facial features of gay men *
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENC FACIAL MASCULY PREFERENC AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN CHA
Fdgs om a recent study published the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggt I may be unrtimatg my gaydar abili.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
The January 2008 study vtigated people's abily to intify homosexual men om pictur of their fac alone. In an ial experiment, rearchers Nicholas Rule and Nali Ambady om Tufts Universy pesed onle datg s and refully selected 45 straight male fac and 45 gay male fac. The 90 fac were then shown to 90 participants random orr, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientatn" (gay or straight) by prsg a button.
Surprisgly, all participants (both men and women) sred above chance on this gaydar task, rrectly intifyg the gay fac.
Then, they did a send search to fd other Facebook ers who had posted photos of the gay men their own profile. "Th, " the thors wrote, "by g photos of gay and straight dividuals that they themselv did not post, we were able to remove the fluence of self-prentatn and much of the potential selectn bias that may be prent photos om personal advertisements. And even wh the more strgent ntrols, the participants were able to intify the gay fac at levels greater than chance—aga even on those trials where the fac were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 lisends.