Gaydar: Do You Have It? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ESISTE DAVVERO IL “GAY RADAR”?
• THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’
• ESISTE IL GAY RADAR?
• GAYDAR: VISUAL TECTN OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
• GAY RADAR, KEMAMPUAN MENTEKSI ORIENTASI SEKSUAL SEORANG
• GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?
• IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?
• GAY RADAR
• GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY MAP
• MOSW GAY BARS

ESISTE DAVVERO IL “GAY RADAR”?

Il “Gay Radar” o “Gaydar” è la prunta abilà di pire l’orientamento ssuale di una persona attraverso l’tuo e il lguagg non verbale. Ho sento spso amici e noscenti gay parlare di quta abilà e un sto senso nel preciso rinoscimento di persone gay pochi sendi e senza marge di errore. Il tt preveva una serie di 90 volti (45 gay e 45 etero), n l’utilizzo di fotografie sia di uomi che di donne.

C’è una rrelazne tra faiarà e accuratezza: le persone n più faiarà verso la unà gay totalizzano punteggi mediamente più alti lle persone n bassa faiarà(63% vs 57%).

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. “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. 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.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

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. My lleagu and I spected that even people who would normally try to rea om stereotypg might be more likely to e gay stereotyp if they are led to believe they have gaydar.

We told some participants that scientific evince says gaydar was a real abily, led others to believe that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg and said nothg about gaydar to a third group (the ntrol). Participants then judged whether men were gay or straight based on rmatn ostensibly taken om social media profil. This sign allowed to asss how often people jumped to the ncln that men were gay based on stereotypilly gay terts.

ESISTE IL GAY RADAR?

Those who were told gaydar is real stereotyped much more than the ntrol group, and participants stereotyped much ls when they had been told that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg. The patterns provid strong support for the ia that belief gaydar enurag stereotypg by simply disguisg unr a different label.

Usg gaydar as a way to talk nocuoly or jokgly about stereotypg – “Oh, that guy sets off my gaydar” – trivializ stereotypg and mak seem like no big al. Participants learned only one thg about this other person, eher that he was gay or simply liked shoppg (people tend to assume men who like shoppg are gay). In one ndn, therefore, the participants knew that the man was gay and the other they might have privately ferred that he was gay though wasn’t nfirmed, but that wasn’t known to anyone else (who might have acced them of beg prejudiced).

GAYDAR: VISUAL TECTN OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN

As we predicted, the vertly prejudiced people tend to rea om shockg the man who was nfirmed as gay, but livered extremely high levels of shocks to the man who liked shoppg. But if others acced participants of prejudice the send ndn, uld be plsibly nied (“I didn’t thk he was gay!

GAY RADAR, KEMAMPUAN MENTEKSI ORIENTASI SEKSUAL SEORANG

Enuragg stereotypg unr the guise of gaydar ntribut – directly or directly – to stereotypg’s downstream nsequenc.

Some rearchers say that stereotyp about gay people posss a gra of tth, which uld lend crence to the ia of havg accurate gaydar. In the studi, rearchers prented pictur, sound clips and vios of real gay and straight people to the participants, who then tegorized them as gay or straight. Half of the people the pictur, clips and vios were gay and half were straight, which meant that the participants would monstrate an accurate gaydar if their accuracy rate were signifintly higher than 50 percent.

Ined, participants tend to have about 60 percent accuracy, and the rearchers nclud that people really do posss an accurate gaydar. Many studi have replited the rults, wh their thors – and the media – toutg them as evince that gaydar exists. But as we’ve been able to show two recent papers, all of the prev studi fall prey to a mathematil error that, when rrected, actually leads to the oppose ncln: Most of the time, gaydar will be highly accurate.

GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

There’s a problem the basic premise of the studi: Namely, havg a pool of people which 50 percent of the targets are gay. In a world where 95 percent of people are straight, 60 percent accuracy means that for every 100 people, there will be 38 straight people rrectly assumed to be gay, but only three gay people rrectly tegorized. Therefore, the 60 percent accuracy the lab studi translat to 93 percent accuracy for intifyg who is gay the real world (38 / [38 + 3] = 92.

IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?

Even when people seem gay – and set off all the alarms on your gaydar – ’s far more likely that they’re straight.

GAY RADAR

If you’re disappoted to learn that your gaydar might not operate as well as you thk do, there’s a quick fix: Rather than g to a snap judgment about people based on what they wear or how they talk, you’re probably better off jt askg them.

L'analisi i primi due perimenti ha rivelato che erano le asi ventate,  acrdo n i più uni stereotipi, a guidare il gaydar lle vie, mentre po importava la qualà lle foto, e anr meno le effettive ratteristiche l terzo perimento i ricertori hanno qudi elimato le asi ma a un gppo hanno mostrato le fotografie l primo perimento, mentre a un altro hanno mostrato un set di fotografie di qualà omogenea, cè le stse ate l sendo perimento. I risultati l primo gppo sono erenti n quelli gli studi precenti sul gaydar, ma nel sendo gppo, quello n le foto lla stsa qualà, i volontari non erano assolutamente grado di distguere gay ed etero maniera statistimente signifitiva. Se nei si di annunci personali, media, le foto lle persone omossuali erano di maggre qualà rispetto a quelle lle persone etero, era allora possibile che i posssori l gaydar si basassero sulle ratteristiche lla foto, non l volto.

GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS

In un quarto perimento i ricertori hanno ottenuti gli stsi risultati n foto di donne: il gaydar si maniftava solo nel gppo che cui la qualà lle foto non era stata normalizzata, mentre nell'altro faceva faceva regolarmente cilec. Appurato che il *gay radar *basato sui volti era un mo, i ricertori hanno poi provato a dagare quanto crerci rrzasse gli stereotipi su cui si appoggiava.

A un gppo è stato racntato che, sendo la scienza, il gaydar isteva davvero, un sendo gppo è stato vece rmato che il gaydar era solo una forma di stereotipizzazne, mentre un gppo di ntrollo non ha ricevuto alcun ndiznamento. Il risultato è stato che il gppo che creva nella scientificà l gaydar si è pletamente abbandonato agli stereotipi suggeri dalle asi che acpagnavano le foto, mentre il sendo gppo è diventato molto più uto nell'primere giudizi, e di onte a scrizni e "gli piace fare shoppg" aveva la stsa probabilà di assegnare un orientamento omossuale o eterossuale. Sendo quti risultati il gaydar non è nient'altro che una maniera anra socialmente accettabile di tegorizzare le persone base a stereotipi.

Inoltre il sidtto gaydar è un mo che legtima ed aspera quto procso di stereotipizzazne, e che occultamente raggia gli stereotipi e dizi per la tegorizzazne. Currently, Amerin gay people believe they have a unique abily to pick each other out a crowd (often termed "gaydar" ["gay" + "radar"]).

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

To tt for the prence of this abily gay men, the rearcher asked self-intified gay and straight male participants to view a seri of unfaiar men on viotape and terme the sexual orientatn of each. The higher overall accuracy of gay men monstrated a trend level difference om their straight horts although fallg short (primarily due to small sample size) of the p < 0.

A theory for the emergence of this skill (termed "Adaptive Gaydar" by the thor) as a unique perceptual abily/pg mechanism uique among gay people is also prented.

MOSW GAY MAP

Implic and explic measur of sexual orientatn attus: group preferenc and related behavrs and beliefs among gay and straight men. Hasilnya, 65 persen partisipan dapat mengintifikasi lbian/wana normal dan 57 persen partisipan dapat mengintifikasi gay/pria normal dari ke-96 foto tersebut. Kemuanya juga tidak meiki bekas la, janggut, kumis atpun bekas ketika wajah-wajah tersebut dampilkan dalam kondisi terbalik, akurasi intifikasi yang dilakan partisipan menun menjadi 61 persen unt lbian/wana normal dan 53 persen unt gay/pria normal.

Namun, tgkat akurasi u masih lebih tggi daripada intifikasi yang dilakan sera kebetulan saja, kata yang dipublikasikan di jurnal PLoS One i menunjkan bahwa banyak orang yang sera sadar membuat pembedaan terhadap homoseksual dan orang normal. Informasi semam i pun akan tes dihadapkan pada ka dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, " tambahnya seperti dirilis dari Health24, Mggu (20/5/2012) mengaku temuan i menantang teori bahwa jika orang-orang merahasiakan orientasi seksualnya maka diskrimasi terhadap homoseksual, lbian dan biseksual takkan pernah ada. Menutnya, argumen i jt dibuat oleh orang-orang yang tak setuju ngan kebijakan anti-diskrimasi bagi kelompok begu, Tabak tak meneman alasan mengapa beberapa orang meiki "radar gay" yang lebih baik dari lanya.

Tabak hanya menduga bahwa "orang-orang dari generasi yang lebih tua at kultur yang berbeda bisa saja tumbuh wasa tanpa pernah berteraksi ngan gay" sehgga kurang akurat dalam mengintifikasi gay at orang normal. 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.

MOSW GAY BARS

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.

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.