Is ‘Gaydar’ Really a Thg? | Psychology Today Canada

Contents:

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

IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?

When they disver that he died of AIDS, Philomena says she always knew he was gay.

This kd of tun is often lled “gaydar” (a batn of “gay” and “radar. ”) However, skeptics dismiss gaydar as nothg more than a set of stereotyp about homosexuals that are largely unte. In a seri of experiments, he and his lleagu tted people’s abili to judge others’ sexual orientatn, and me to the ncln that gaydar is real.

Rule claims that gaydar is jt like other social tuns. But how exactly do gaydar work? For example, homosexual men tend to be more meticulo about their clothg and hairstyle pared wh heterosexual mal.

GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

In a procs known as genr versn, gay men tend to sway their hips like straight women, while lbians tend to swagger their shoulrs like straight men. Rule not that many people hold speech stereotyp about homosexuals, such as the belief that gay men lisp when they talk. Aga, we see that gaydar works like other social tuns, that the stereotyp people nscly hold don’t match the featur their tuns tect at an unnsc level.

The fact that facial featur provi visual cu to sexual orientatn lends support for epigeic theori that attribute homosexualy to prenatal experienc such as exposure to hormon utero. So seems que likely that Philomena uld have known that her ltle boy was gay, as she claims the movie.

Furthermore, people differ their gaydar abili. People wh strongly exprsed homophobia aren’t very accurate at judgg sexual orientatn, even though they thk they are. Straight people who have gay iends are more accurate their judgments, but they feel ls nfince their asssments.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

And not surprisgly, gays and lbians are generally que accurate at judgg sexual orientatn. In sum, gaydar really is a thg, that people are generally good at perceivg sexual orientatn om nonverbal cu.

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

Rather, gaydar taps to the same “people sense” we e to quickly size up those we enunter our daily liv. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?

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).

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? Could gays/lbians who are not out by choice or sign be intified as gay by raters?

We know that men who ncealed their homosexualy were perceived by strangers as more likely to be straight (Tskhay & Rule, onle).

GAYDAR

I don’t know the answers, but the issu ought to be nsired future gaydar rearch.

HOW’S YOUR GAYDAR?

That is, do we have gaydar of sexual inty stereotyp or gaydar of sexual orientatn?

Is there one or two bt characteristics for gaydar? One clear answer is that gaydar affects employers’ cisns regardg who to hire, nsistent wh the stereotyp they have regardg who performs bt at that profsn (e. G., gay mal as nurs) (Rule et al., 2016).

TT YOUR GAYDAR

As bt as I n terme, the gaydar rearch is rtricted to a gay vers straight paradigm. They’re ually lumped wh gays and hence not unique (Dg & Rule, 2012).

GAYDAR

I jt download Krista Burton’s article, “Hipsters Broke My Gaydar” (), which qutns the accuracy of her gaydar now that hipsters have taken over queerns.

Gay, straight, or somewhere between: Accuracy and bias the perceptn of bisexual fac.

Gaydar: The perceptn of sexual orientatn om subtle cu. Internalized homophobia fluenc perceptns of men’s sexual orientatn om photos of their fac. Usg "gaydar" as a way to talk jokgly about stereotypg trivializ , rearchers say.

GAYDAR

Studi suggt that the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend nsequenc.

Stereotyp often fluence the imprsns, whether ’s that a black man is dangero, a woman won’t be a good lear or a fashnable man is gay.

Stereotyp related to gay men and lbians often operate unr the guise of “gaydar” rather than stereotypg. “Gaydar” (a portmante of “gay” and “radar”) is a term that first appeared the 1980s and refers to a “sixth sense” for intifyg who is gay. Like many purported tuns, however, gaydar often reli on stereotyp.

MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH

While many people believe stereotypg is wrong, llg “gaydar” merely provis a ver for g stereotypil tras – like someone’s fashn sense, profsn or hairstyle – to jump to nclns about someone beg gay. Nohels, some rearchers have published studi that, at first glance, appear to show that people have accurate gaydar. In some recent work, my lleagu and I have been able to monstrate how the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend negative nsequenc.

We’ve also intified a mathematil flaw some prev gaydar rearch, llg to qutn the rults.